School dropout: a consequence of discrimination and bias suffered by young people in the socio-educational system

Abstract

This text is the result of study addressing prejudice suffered within educational institutions that affects young people included in the socio-educational system. As a result, the stigma carried by teenagers is one of the causes of  their school dropout. Therefore, the study aims to: identify the causes of school dropout among young people complying with socio-educational measures highlighted by recent studies. In order to comprehend the relationship between socio-educational students and school, three main concepts were approached that connect young people that follow socio-educational measures with school dropout. The first one is socio-education, where the target audience, types of socio-educational measures that can be applied, and how the process occurs until sentencing are addressed. The second concept presents the right to education, bringing how this right has been constituted in Brazil and in the socio-educational context. The final concept addressed is school dropout, starting from conceptualizing it and how the phenomenon is explored as it occurs within the socio-educational system. In terms of methodology, a qualitative approach was implemented using the bibliographic research strategy method. The data analysis included the utilization of Content Analysis by Laurence Bardin (2016). Due to the fact that this text is an excerpt from a pedagogy course final project, this research makes an excerpt from the analysis bringing the biased practices that contribute to school dropout. From the analysis it was possible to verify that, on several occasions, young people inserted in socio-education are seen by workers and students at educational institutions as fitting the stereotype of people uninterested in school who will soon drop out. This leads to an exclusionary treatment that contributes to school dropout.