CHALLENGES OF UNIVERSITY STUDENT PERMANENCE: A STUDY ABOUT THE TRAJECTORY OF STUDENTS ASSISTED BY STUDENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS

• Autor(a) principal: ALMEIDA SOARES GANAM, ELIANA
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: MOSCA PINEZI, ANA KEILA
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por; eng
• Título da fonte: Educação em Revista
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/edrevista/article/view/37441
• topic: permanência estudantil; assistência estudantil; universidade pública; student permanence; student assistance; public university; permanencia estudantil; asistencia estudiantil; universidad pública

This article discusses student permanence in Brazilian public higher education based on astudy conducted at the Federal University of São Paulo. In the study, we sought to understand how agroup of college students assisted by student assistance programs build their academic trajectory,considering their asymmetric socioeconomic background. This article analyzes part of the data from thein-depth interviews carried out in this research. It can be observed that the trajectory of students coming from social classes different from those that traditionally occupied the public university coexists withcontradictions that make their permanence in the university a constant challenge. Elements of thematerial world, linked to financial subsistence, and symbolic, linked to the perception of belonging,indicate that the passage through the public university does not guarantee, in itself, changes in the waythese students are perceived from the social "place", although these perceptions do not prevent studentsfrom overcoming the symbolic barriers of discrimination and exclusion and seeking ways to equalize thestandard condition of the university student.