STUDENT ABSENTEEISM IN THE TEACHING-LEARNING PROCESS – A CHALLENGE FOR TEACHERS

Abstract

This article aims to analyze student absenteeism in the teaching-learning process—a challenge for this activity. Absenteeism has been reported in many schools in Benguela, a situation that has raised concerns throughout the academic community. While students are being prepared to serve the country in the future, absenteeism jeopardizes their future, fostering situations that are unfavorable to the teaching-learning process. Absenteeism is the unjustified failure to attend classes or other school activities. Chronic absenteeism is when a student misses a lot of school, for any reason, justified or not. Repeated absenteeism inevitably leads to academic failure and early dropout, contributing to social inequality, unemployment, and crime. Thus, this study helps us understand the main causes of absenteeism in Benguela schools, as it is a worrying aspect of the teaching-learning process that compromises students' cognitive, intellectual, and cultural development. Therefore, to analyze this issue, the method adopted was synthetic analysis, inductive-deductive analysis, and bibliographic research.