PROUNI: o ponto de vista dos alunos

Abstract

The dissertation aims to analyze the socioeconomic and cultural factors that lead students to look for a government program through which they can get into a private institution of higher education. The case study was the students Prouni scholarships at Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro - PUC Rio. The research consists of a discussion about the reason for the search of an high level academic title, based on historical and social bases of our society, given that the universe of the program is focused on the Brazilian geographic space in which subjects are students who are or have attended high school or secondary technical institution in public schools. For data analysis we use the method of historical dialectical materialism, and as a tool to critical analysis of speech-CDA use of semi-structured interviews, both for managers and for students and a small field notebook. We analyze the formation of public policy for education in the macro social context in order to understand the social imagination about what means to have a high level academic title. We bring an analysis of students' speech against the backdrop background of professional discourse of the institution in seeking a rapprochement with the realities, the order to know what the real expectations of future, perceived by these students, and thus be able to capture titration aims, in addition to meet the order capitalist, meeting needs that are exposed to from the subjectivity of social individuals. We conclude that the title has two social imaginary determinations: On the one hand it is believed that the title will provide students meet the specific needs of market, providing its entry into the world of work, on the other, the social world gives the title Bachelor a symbolic weight that put the subject in one different level within society. However, all this process involves a dimension of decision social consciousness of the place that puts students in a direct confrontation between objective reality and concrete social reality of paying students of PUC- Rio, which creates a few moments of pupils illness. In the last chapter, we conclude that the Prouni program may be a way to raise awareness of the social position of the different fractions of class, but needs improvement, because in cases where the confrontation of reality is direct and involves people the issue of care is present in order to avoid unpleasant outcomes.