Banca de DEFESA: RENATO LIMA DOS SANTOS

Uma banca de DEFESA de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : RENATO LIMA DOS SANTOS
DATE: 20/10/2023
TIME: 09:00
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TITLE:

Decision-making agenda and racial quotas in graduate courses: a qualitative analysis at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte

KEY WORDS:

affirmative actions to graduate courses; black movement; multiple streams model; agenda definition

PAGES: 162
BIG AREA: Ciências Sociais Aplicadas
AREA: Planejamento Urbano e Regional
SUMMARY:

The political mobilization of the black movement enabled racial inequality in access to higher education to be recognized as a problem by decision-makers, allowing affirmative action policies for undergraduate courses to reach the decision agenda of state and federal governments. With the change in the racial profile of undergraduate students, the mobilization for affirmative action in graduate courses intensified, which also reached the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte. This reasearch aims at understanding the formation of the agenda and the disputes involving the implementation of racial quotas in UFRN graduate courses based on the theoretical model of multiple streams, proposed by Kingdon (2014). The specific objectives are 1) to investigate the presence or absence of racial inequality in the UFRN graduate student body; 2) to apply the multiple streams model to verify its explanatory capacity for the chosen empirical case; 3) to analyze the role of black activists as non-governmental actors to the agenda definition process of racial quotas in graduate courses at UFRN and their relationship with other actors. The methodological path is based on 1) quantitative analysis of secondary data made available by the Plataforma Dados Abertos da UFRN; 2) carrying out semi-structured interviews; 3) thematic analysis of the interviews; and 4) documentary analysis of official documents, publications on social media and news. As results, we identify 1) the presence of inequality between white and black students in access to master's and doctoral courses at UFRN among the years 2000 and 2020; 2) the streams proposed by Kingdon were activated, opening a window of opportunity for the problem to enter the decision agenda of UFRN; 3) the black movement acted as a policy entrepreneur in the UFRN mobilization process, coordinating actors and presenting alternatives to solve the problem. From a substantive point of view, the research reveals that access for black people to master's and doctoral courses at UFRN between the years 2000 and 2020 increased, even though racial inequalities are still present in more prestigious courses and doctoral courses.. Finally, it is concluded that the multiple streams model is capable of explaining the formation of the affirmative action agenda for graduate courses at UFRN.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 1715152 - SANDRA CRISTINA GOMES
Interna - 1715135 - JOANA TEREZA VAZ DE MOURA
Externa à Instituição - DYANE BRITO REIS - UFRB