Percepciones frente a los factores que inciden en la deserción, por parte de un grupo de estudiantes de la Facultad de Cultura Física, Deporte y Recreación de la Universidad Santo Tomás, sede Bogotá

Abstract

Dropout is a social phenomenon which occurs at different stages of education, it occurs at basic, middle and higher education levels. This has been studied to know the causes that lead to this happening, which is why the different factors that are presented as individual, psychological, institutional, social, economic, and family factors are addressed. A qualitative investigation was carried out through individual and focus group interviews to know and understand the perception that students have at the Universidad Santo Tomás, Campus headquarters, Bogotá. Within the results obtained, it was possible to identify the psychological, family and economic factors perceived by the students as associated with dropout, these last two factors are seen to be linked in their process. On the contrary, social perception is not perceived to drop out, dropout is also not perceived due to an institutional factor, which on the contrary is part of the motivation to continue with the study program. It can be concluded that students have to cope with different factors, situations or aspects that may or may not be under their control, where some factors may even be linked at the same time, these can trigger the perception of abandoning or continuing. with studies.