Abstract

CAUDURO, Maria Teresa  and  WERLE, Flávia Obino Corrêa. Prouni students who enrolled in graduate studies. ETD [online]. 2015, vol.17, n.3, pp.596-613. ISSN 1676-2592.  https://doi.org/10.20396/etd.v17i3.8638231.

The paper presents the results of a case study research conducted in the Rio Grande do Sul state's region called Alto UruguaieMissões, involving the Department of Education of the Universidade Regional Integradado Alto Uruguai e das Missões (URI/FW). This research, carried out in 2013, sought to analyze the profile of URI/FW former PROUNI students who enrolled in graduate studies in the field of Education from 2011 to 2013 and the impact of this public policy on them. As a qualitative study, with descriptive features and a study case, it sought to document and analyze some phenomena grounded on Bourdieu's ideas as cultural capital. The sample of this study consisted of eight former PROUNI graduate students who enrolled in the Master's Program of Education in the mentioned period. This sample compounds the totality of former PROUNI students who enrolled in the Master's Program. The tabulation of data was done manually and used descriptive statistics (frequency and percentage) through Microsoft Excel. As a result, we see that 100 percent of the students involved said that without PROUNI they would not have means to access Higher Education training, and that, when finishing their ungraduated courses, they were soon absorbed by the market enabling income generation. Not content with what they had achieved, these students sought another degree (another investment) to have access to a better social status and remuneration. We suggest these data be used to expand further investigations with more quantitative and qualitative data.

Keywords : ProUni; Public Policy; Graduate Programs.

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