Política de permanência no Ensino Superior no Brasil e formação de qualidade

Abstract

The objective of this dissertation is to identify if the UFJF Student Assistance Policy contributes to the continuity of the studies of the undergraduates and if it enables a quality education to them. In order to answer this proposed question, we carried out a study on the historiography of higher education in Brazil and its expansion throughout history, as well as discussing the concept of quality in training. In particular, we presented the trajectory of UFJF Student Assistance Policy and how it has contributed to the permanence of students at the university, through documentary research to Ordinances, Resolutions, Institutional Development Plan, UFJF Action Plan and other documents that make up the history of this policy in this institution. In regards to educational training, we considered a few criteria to analyse if the UFJF Student Assistance Policy has enabled quality training to the students who were served by it, considering that we elected it as being central to our research, among other determinants that contributed to this excellence in training. Among these criteria, the principles and guidelines of the Social Work Training Project were the parameters for our analysis. The locus of this research was the Social Work College of UFJF, and we used the students of the course as our sample object. A socioeconomic survey of those assisted by UFJF Student Assistance Policy was carried out, through documents from the UFJF Student Assistance Office, as spreadsheets with students' socioeconomic data and documents submitted by them to participate in the Scholarship and Student Aid Program. In the field research, students from the 8th and 9th grade of the referred course participated (24 undergraduates in the second semester of 2019 from a total of 32 students), through the application of a semi-open questionnaire (this instrument is included in the appendix of this dissertation). In addition, we present data on the socioeconomic and cultural profile of IFES undergraduate students, according to the V Survey conducted by FONAPRACE in 2018 about this profile, nationwide and at UFJF. The research reaffirms the importance of student assistance policy for student stays, as well as showing that it contributes to a quality education when it allows undergraduate students, especially low-income students, to dedicate themselves to academic life through material resources and non-materials they receive from Student Assistance Policy. Both students, whether those who received some assistance from student assistance policy and those who did not, understand its contribution to permanence and to qualified training. The research also confirmed that the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF) and the Social Work College are moving towards quality training, according to the institution's conception of this quality and in accordance with the Social Service Professional Training Project.