CURSINHO POPULAR MARIELLE FRANCO: STRATEGIES FOR FIGHTING FOR TICKET EXCESS IN PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES
Cursinho Popular; Emancipa; Social movement; Ethnography; Politics.
This work is the result of an ethnography carried out at the Cursinho Popular Marielle
Franco, from Rede Emancipa, in the city of Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, with an emphasis on
the performance that I had in the field, in person and on a daily basis, during the year 2019.
Rede claims itself as a social movement of popular education that is organized nationally,
mainly through popular preparatory courses for the Enem and entrance exams, aimed at the
socioeconomically vulnerable population, black people and students from the public school
system. The research investigated some questions that surround the existence of the course:
how educational practices take place when it is necessary to criticize and denounce the
exclusionary character of entrance exams and Enem and, at the same time, the proposal to
enable the access of the lower classes to Universities Public? How to deal with this conflict
when the students of popular courses are the “surplus”, that is, students who are usually left
out of the vacancies? In addition, what are the uses and appropriations of the “popular
education” category, considering the dialogue between the social movement and the party
militancy in the cram and the network? That said, I shed light on some discursive
elaborations, organizational strategies and conflicts observed in the field, showing the plural,
dynamic and multifaceted character of Cursinho Marielle Franco.