Banca de DEFESA: MARIANNA CARLA COSTA TAVARES

Uma banca de DEFESA de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : MARIANNA CARLA COSTA TAVARES
DATE: 09/12/2021
TIME: 09:00
LOCAL: Webconferência
TITLE:

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KEY WORDS:

Student Assistance; Permanency; College Education;

PAGES: 115
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Educação
SUMMARY:

This dissertation work aims to analyze the strategies of permanence at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), investigating the main guidelines for permanence in Higher Education in the decade 2010-2019. We seek to understand the effectiveness of permanence strategies, in the light of national guidelines and policies, discussing factors that impact the permanence of students at UFRN. By permanence, we understand the possibility of completing higher education, through student assistance actions, which we understand as a social achievement, considering that students with income up to 1.5 minimum wages have the right to stay and complete the course at the institution to which they had access. Permanence is an indispensable condition for the real democratization of access to higher education, which, only at the entrance, does not guarantee that the process has been, in fact, expanded with quality, as demonstrated in the theoretical references that address student assistance and permanence, used in this work. We also attribute relevance to the expansion of higher education in the country, with methodological foundation based on historical-dialectical materialism, understanding that it is not possible to analyze the phenomena of access and permanence dissociated from normative frameworks, considering primary references from the perspective of a reflection on totality. Thus, not knowing the entire process of permanence nationally, makes it impossible to understand this phenomenon at UFRN. We are committed to the discussion about the policies of permanence in undergraduate courses of the UFRN, based, a priori, on official documents of the agencies that manage and legislate on the dynamics of the university, but substantially seeing, in the circuit of action, the transformation of the conditions and institutions that interfere in social life. We analyzed the data from ufrn's management reports from 2011 to 2019, as well as the documents collected in ufrn's open database. Nationally, it was possible to immerse the data presented by the Census of Higher Education (CENSUP-MEC/Inep) in the period 2003-2018, in the questionnaires of the National Examination of Student Performance (ENADE), in the documents of the National Forum of Pro-Rectors of Community and Student Affairs (FONAPRACE) and the National Association of Leaders of Federal Institutions of Higher Education (ANDIFES). In this analysis, UFRN is perceived adopting several permanence strategies, such as financial assistance, pedagogical support and health care. From this, we observed a greater focus on financial aid, with an emphasis on food aid. It is observed that the participation of students in the discussions and decisions of these strategies is still reduced, even absent in some. However, we noticed that sometimes, with resistance and struggle, students got good participation in discussions of forums and collegiates, influencing some regulations. We found that, in recent years, there has been a decrease in the number of university residences, in contrast to the increase in the demand of students for vacancies in them. In this case, UFRN reports indicate problems arising from bureaucratic obstacles, but without management responses, such as improvement actions in deadlines or physical structure, but with the deactivation of these residences, associated with financial assistance to housing, which has been showing significant growth, reinforcing the focus on financial assistance actions, even if still insufficient to guarantee all needs.

BANKING MEMBERS:
Interna - 6396421 - ANDREIA DA SILVA QUINTANILHA SOUSA
Externa à Instituição - DANIELA CUNHA TERTO - IFRN
Interno - 1458867 - GILMAR BARBOSA GUEDES
Externa à Instituição - MARIA APARECIDA DOS SANTOS FERREIRA - IFRN
Presidente - 347594 - MARIA GORETTI CABRAL BARBALHO