O ABANDONO DOS ESTUDANTES NO ENSINO SUPERIOR: O MODELO DE VICENT TINTO

Abstract

Students dropout in high education from perspective of Vicent Tinto.

Abstract

Dropout in high education is a phenomenom that educational systems have faced, causing constraints at the level of society, institutions, families and students themselves, putting in question the quality of the institution and the higher education system itself. The objective was to present an explication of students´ dropout in higher education from the perspective of Vicente Tinto. The author of the studentd´ integration model (Tinto, 1975) proposes that dropout occurs when students are unable to integrate academically and socially. Integrating academically means the students involvement in the university environment considering the context of the course and its academic life (learning, academic performance, career development). Social integration refers to the feeling of belonging to a group and feeling in university environment (integration with peers and with the teachers in institution). In addition to these two aspects, Tinto`s theory points to two other fundamentals factors for permanence or abandonment: the commitment to the institution and the goal of completing the training.

Keywords: Higher Education; Academic Integration; Dropout; Vicent Tinto´s model.