To leave the university, to return and to persist until the end: student’s pilgrims and their senses on the school

Abstract

From a sociocultural approach we analyze the reasons that students of a private university offered us to explain the senses that they built around their school routes: their school dropouts, returns and permanence in the same. We interviewed eight psychology students from a private university who talked about themselves by positioning their identities in different ways, in situations of stress between contexts of practice or making choices of life. We conclude that the students have articulated a sense of schooling and in consequence they have managed to persist in school until they finish their studies.