Estratégias para a retenção da rapariga na escola: o caso da Escola Secundária Samora Moisés Machel na Cidade de Maputo

Abstract

The theme of this study is “Strategies used to retain girls in school: the case of Samora Moisés Machel Secondary School”. The study sought to identify strategies motivational factors that the school uses to retain the girl. For this purpose, the research had as objectives (i) identify motivational strategies implemented at school that can contribute for the retention of the girl; (ii) describe the perceptions of the girls in relation to their insertion in the school environment; (iii) explain how the family environment can affect the performance of the girl at school. Through semi-structured interviews applied to 13 respondents in the Escola Secundária Samora Moisés Machel, bibliographical research, were collected, analyzed and interpreted data that led us to conclude that the selected school, to guarantee the retention of girls has disseminated information inherent to the importance of schooling girl and above all, the benefits of the same through lectures to raise awareness of parents, drawing attention to girls in the classroom in the form of small talk educational. The study also shows that girls also understand the importance of school in their socio-economic life. And as measures to prevent dropouts, the school has talked to parents at the School Council about the importance of girls' schooling and has tried to contact the students themselves when they drop out of school.(TRADUÇÃO NOSSA)