Banca de DEFESA: JONATHAN ALVES MARTINS

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STUDENT : JONATHAN ALVES MARTINS
DATE: 28/02/2023
TIME: 09:00
LOCAL: Plataforma de webconferência (online)
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KEY WORDS:

Higher Education. Public policies. Student Assistance. Cognitive Analysis of Public Policies. Critical Discourse Studies. Pnaes.

PAGES: 297
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Educação
SUMMARY:

Due to higher education expansion policies responsible for a significant increase in the entry of students from the most vulnerable strata of the population in these spaces, the profile of students at public universities has been modified in recent decades, whether regarding race, gender or social class (ANDIFES, 2018). From the context of increase in the number of vacancies in public educational institutions, also derives the institution of policies that seek to provide conditions so that needy students could remain in the university until the completion of the formative process. From the perspective of such material reality, this doctoral thesis analyses the National Student Assistance Program (Pnaes), as operationalized at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN) in the period between 2011 and 2020, with the central objective of analysing the student assistance policy from a focus that falls on the benchmarks that guide the conduct of the referred public action, as well as on the changes that occurred during the first decade of implementation of Pnaes at UFRN. Throughout the analysis, concepts are mobilized that refer both to the universal aspect and the particularities of the research object in focus, such as: the binomials justice/social justice and social inclusion/exclusion; vulnerability, poverty and inequality; and access and permanence. We also adopt, in agreement with Nascimento and Arcoverde (2012), the concept of "scholarshipification" to describe the logic under which the Student Assistance policies operate nowadays, patent in a historical context of concomitance between student and social assistance and marked by processes of financial reimbursement and counterparts located beyond the pedagogical requirement. In the toada of this interdisciplinary perspective, the research adopts public policies as an analytical category (MULLER, 2018; HASSENTEUFEL, 2008), and the methodological path was built by the dialogue between Cognitive Approaches to Public Policy and Critical Discourse Studies. The corpus of analysis is composed of transcripts of semi-structured interviews with six professionals from the permanent staff of public servants at UFRN identified by the research as decision-makers in the various sectors responsible for the operationalization of student assistance at UFRN, as well as 650 interviews collected with students served by such policy. Thus, the thesis presents a specific analysis of the ideas in action which materialize by means of a particular normative and cognitive framework at UFRN in the period under analysis. The work is divided into five chapters, which accommodate: (i) a detailing of the public policies for student assistance in the historical cycles of Brazilian public higher education; (ii) a historical and dialectical recovery of the cycles of student assistance at UFRN, focusing on the responses elaborated by the institution in the execution of Pnaes resources in the period; iii) an analysis of the discourses and assessments of students who are assisted by assistance about the policy at UFRN; iv) a critical appreciation of the ideas of assistance in the discourses of political-bureaucratic actors who execute the public policy at UFRN; and v) a reflection about the possible sociocognitive and ideological effects of the discourses of managers in the materialization of the policy. In view of the results obtained, we conclude that the student assistance model adopted by UFRN is not ideal and that, among other factors to be improved, the resources coming from Pnaes should be used to grant permanence allowance without the requirement of a work counterpart. We defend that, following the example of other federal universities, UFRN should create a permanence allowance linked to those already existing. Finally, in the Final Considerations, it is woven a reflective and propositional synthesis based on the results of empirical and theoretical-epistemological analyses carried out, taking into account that the research was built with a view to building knowledge for the transformation of the policy and, thus, produce conditions that favor social change for the improvement of people's lives.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Interna - ***.306.895-** - ALDA MARIA DUARTE ARAÚJO CASTRO - UFRN
Presidente - 6396421 - ANDREIA DA SILVA QUINTANILHA SOUSA
Externa à Instituição - CARINA ELISABETH MACIEL - UFMS
Externa à Instituição - CLEIDE EMILIA FAYE PEDROSA - UFS
Interna - ***.991.844-** - MARIA APARECIDA DE QUEIROZ - null
Externa ao Programa - 1035284 - MARIA VIEIRA SILVA - nullExterna à Instituição - TAYSA MÉRCIA DOS SANTOS SOUZA DAMACENO - UFS