Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: ANA CAROLINA COSTA BENEVIDES LEITE

STUDENT AID ASSISTANCE IN THE CONTEXT OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC: 
An analysis based on the provision of student aid assistance for students of popular origin at UFRN (2020-2021)

Student Assistance. Students of Popular Origin. COVID-19 pandemic. UFRN

The proposed research aims to analyze how the implementation took place and what were the results of the student aid assistance in meeting the needs of students of popular origin of the UFRN undergraduate courses who needed this support. The aid was implemented during the social isolation and remote teaching measures required by the Covid-19 pandemic. The work seeks to analyze the implementation of said aid as part of the development of student assistance in the institution and during the pandemic, for this purpose it intends to analyze the profile of students of popular origin who were assisted by the aid in question; identify the main social needs of these students in the context of the pandemic; verify if the program was able to contribute to the academic trajectory of the beneficiary students. The method of analysis is the historical-dialectical materialism proposed by Marx, as it understands that, through it, it is possible to reveal the phenomena in their essence, their contradictions and dynamism. Thus, the research will have a qualitative character, in view of the need posed by the proposed object and to deepen the analysis. It will be in a documental and bibliographical research in the perspective of apprehending the object with regard to its universal and particular aspects, as well as better understanding the categories of analysis, the legal and institutional framework that deals with student assistance in Brazil and, specifically, at UFRN. It is considered that the relevance of the study is centered on the urgency of understanding and debating the university beyond a trainer of workers capable of acting in the labor market, but, fundamentally, as a space that drives the construction of subjects capable of critically reflect and intervene in reality; in contributing to the debate on student assistance at UFRN, especially in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic, as well as its ability to respond to the needs of students of popular origin.