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BERTOLIN, Julio C. G.  e  FIOREZE, Cristina. The indeterminacy of the cultural capital and background in the Prouni scholarship students performance: from the outstanding scores to hypothesis of improbable outcomes. Conjectura: filos. e Educ. [online]. 2016, vol.21, n.2, pp.288-308. ISSN 2178-4612.  https://doi.org/10.18226/21784612.v21.n2.288.

Studies about scholar efficacy and Bourdieu’s concept of cultural capital (1979) show that social-economic and cultural context - or background - play a fundamental role in students’ scores and results in exams. Therefore, following these theories, students that come from lower background tend to present lower performance if compared to students from privileged social-economic and cultural context. Taking it into consideration, University for All Program/Prouni, created in 2004, aims to promote higher education access through scholarships of 100% and 50% destined to students that both, prove per capita family income between zero and three minimum salaries and that have studied secondary school in public schools or in private schools with scholarship. Because of such conditions, it is expected that those students present lower performance than the ones that have been paying fees. However, some teachers’ perceptions indicate that it does not always happen. In other words, Prouni students have been obtaining, in different situations inside private institutions, better results than students that pay fees. Facing this context and aiming to reflect about fundamental aspects regarding to quality and equity, this paper discusses the supposed superiority of Prouni students’ scores in both, classes that they attend in higher education and Enade (National Exam of Students Performance). At the same time, this paper analyses hypothesis that could explain the performance beyond that expected shown by students from popular classes. As for methodological development, this research uses two data basis. The first one is shaped by assessment data related to courses from a community university in Rio Grande do Sul state, between 2009 and 2012. The second one consists of Enade data regarding to 2006.

Palavras-chave : Cultural Capital; Background; Higher Education; Prouni.

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