Programa Nacional de Assistência Estudantil: percepção de discentes do Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Pará - campus Conceição do Araguaia-PA

Abstract

This dissertation presents an analysis of the Student Assistance Policy developed in the scope of the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Pará - Campus Conceição do Araguaia. This analysis is based on the assumption that the Student Assistance Policy is inserted in the context of social policies, since it aims to minimize the effects of social inequalities through the permanence and success of students in higher education courses. It is a modality of social policy in the area of education associated with social assistance to substantiate this understanding, we seek the theoretical conceptions on Social Policy of Vicente de Paula Faleiros, Elaine Rossetti Behring, Yasbek, Pedro Demo, among others to theoretically guide this production. The Research was developed from the conception of the students benefited by the student assistance. We delimit the study to the students of the agronomic engineering course due to the relevance that the course has on campus. This is a qualitative exploratory research, whose data collection instruments were questionnaires and documentary analysis. The main objective was to verify how the students understand the student assistance that is offered to them. The analysis of the data was done through tables and the presentation of the data was divided into two topics. The research pointed out that the students have little clarity of what is the National Program of Student Assistance, that there are difficulties in the operationalization of the program in the Campus, mainly in what refers to the values, selective process and deadlines. Despite the difficulties pointed out, students prefer the offer of student assistance in the form of aid.