Políticas educacionais :a trajetória de estudantes para o acesso à educação superior

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2008

RESUMO

This study focuses on the investigation of the difficulties for lower social class students to enter and remain at college levels. The knowledge transmission at these higher levels is built and developed historically, ruled by a set of specific science terms. When the student is not familiar with this cultural context, he will face many difficulties, which stresses the differences between the lower and higher social classes. Therefore, the studies up to college become very hard for the lower classes and when it is reached, it is still difficult to complete it. This study aims to examine the educational policies for college levels and the difficulties to reach and remain at it. This research was based on the following authors: Pierre Bourdieu (1964, 1983, 1992, 1997, 1998, 2005) Karl Marx (1985), Paulo Freire (1997), Thomas Gounet (1999), Claus Offe (1984), Antonio Gramsci (1991), Dermeval Saviani (1980, 1992, 1999, 2003), Raymond Williams (1992), Bernard Charlot (2005), Luiz Antonio Cunha (1986), among others. The starting point of the study was the use of the life story technique with autobiographical characteristics. The criterion for the student#s selection was their socialeconomic condition. The chosen method allowed students to feel free to narrate their lives until the present day, highlighting the most interesting events or issues for the research, in this case, their school life from elementary school until college. The results show the historical fragility of college education in Brazil. Its design has never focused on the education of the majority of the population. On the contrary, the benefits always focused on the economic elites and privileged minority. As college educational levels have never been a priority, policies regarding accessing and remaining are minimal, recent and compensatory. These result in palliative short-term actions, which are not an effective solution to the problem.Therefore, in order for students of less privileged classes to access a college education level and remain in it - which is the case of the students who participated in the survey - they need an overwhelming effort. Even though they study at public universities usually it is necessary to work to self-support. In case of private education, it s imperative to work.

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ensino superior educação e estado educacao educational sociology education, higher educação - dissertações education and state education educação - aspectos econômicos sociologia educacional

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