Defasagem idade/série na região do Vale do Rio dos Sinos – uma análise de políticas municipais de educação

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to map the local educational policies in relation to coping with age / grade lag in the counties that make up the region of Vale do Rio dos Sinos- Araricá, Campo Bom, Dois Irmãos, Estancia Velha, Ivoti, Lindolfo Collor, Morro Reuther, Nova Hartz, Novo Hamburgo, Presidente Lucena, São Leopoldo and Sapiranga. The goal is to analyze the indicators ofrates of age / grade lag in elementary school and to map the educational policies presented in each county in order to improve this problem aiming at the quality of public education. In this analysis, we can observe the set of educational activities aimed at the effective learning of those students who have learning disabilities and are in situation of age / grade lag. The successive grade repetition are identified as characteristics that lead to this gap, once they generate difficulty of socialization at school and thus these students tend to drop out of school, resulting in what we identify as school failure. The methodology used was documentary analysis followed by structured interviews. The results show that, although there is wide dissemination of data through the School Census, the rates of age / grade lag are not treated specifically and continuously in the educational policies of most of these places. In those counties where there is a public educational policy aimed to cope with the age / grade lag, it is clear that the quality of education has assumed significant proportions in the entire school system, generating satisfactory results to teaching and learning.