Abstract

RIBEIRO, Flávia de Mendonça  and  GUZZO, Raquel Souza Lobo. Prejudice and prounistas: “you don’t belong to here”. Psic. da Ed. [online]. 2021, n.53, pp.13-24.  Epub June 24, 2022. ISSN 2175-3520.  https://doi.org/10.23925/2175-3520.2021i53p13-24.

This paper is part of a doctoral thesis that aimed to identify and analyze the presence of prejudice in the academic spaces where ProUni (Program University for All) is existence, to defend the thesis: the ProUni, at the same time as it seeks to repair the historical absence of the working class in Brazilian Higher Education, reveals the social inequalities manifested by prejudice in university experiences. For the development of an argumentative structure that defends the thesis it was necessary to map and characterize the students of ProUni from an online questionnaire, besides two in-depth interviews that happened individually. It is known that prejudice in society exists, as well as in private Higher Educations Institutions, but it isn’t considered how this prejudice influences the student's experience during his/her graduation, therefore, it was used the quantitative method and the constructive-interpretative analysis. It is concluded that although the ProUni gives access for the working class to Higher Education, the prejudice experienced during graduation is still quite veiled, damaging the daily life of these students, being a source of psychic suffering. A deep work of psychology in higher education is needed to assist the Higher Educations Institutions in the integration of these students in the university community, as well as to help them cope with prejudice in university experiences.

Keywords : Critical Psychology; Higher Education; Prejudice; ProUni.

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