Política estudantil da UFAL: percurso, cenário e condições de permanência

Abstract

This thesis aims to comprehend the student politics, regarding the permanence in Higher Education. Studies on the permanence of students from the working class are expanding on the national scene, and counting since the beginning with the effective participation of the Multidisciplinary Research Group on Youth and Adult Education (Multieja/Cedu/Ufal/CNPq), which is characterized as the precursor of studies on the subject in the state of Alagoas. It is based on the trail of national works, and added to the contributions of the Group's production and its ramifications, that made us enter this theme, tracing an overview of the importance of the discussion about the notion of permanence and its meanings. As a legitimizing body and inducer of actions of this nature, the Graduation Prorectorate (Proest) at Ufal is the locus of this study. And, in view of the principles that govern its actions, which is to guarantee those who access Proest the possibility of conclusion, we started from the following questioning: What strategies does the student politics within the Ufal use aiming at the permanence of students? The research is of a qualitative nature, with methodological procedures carried out from bibliographic studies and information analysis collected in official national documents and, also, within the scope of Ufal. The study showed that the permanence strategies created by Ufal, through Proest, are predominantly configured as material actions and Pedagogical Support, aid oriented. It also demonstrated that such actions are of substantial importance within the institutional logic, which has the function of creating the structural conditions for students considered socially vulnerable to be able to build long-term permanence paths at the university, having the possibility to access and successfully complete their educational processes.