Avaliação da assistência estudantil: possibilidades e limites e uma política pública educacional

Abstract

The present work made an impact evaluation at Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Ceará (IFCE), Fortaleza campus, of students’ politics and assistance. As an aim to understand how this politics have been developing along with the learners that fall back upon it to remain in the referred learning institution, this research aimed to know if this politics has been reaffirming itself as a student’s right, enabling them to complete their studies, and also how social actors, that are involved with students assistance (students, social assistants of Social Services Coordination, director of students matters and financial management directory), see it, lead it and what meanings they have about this politics to identify its potentialities and limits. For this purpose, this work shows some discussions about the context where students’ assistance has risen, the understanding of it as educational public politics turned to the maintenance of the students in the learning federal institutions, and specifically its implantation in IFCE, Fortaleza campus. Some semi-structured interviews have been conducted in order to get to the proposed aims, as well as participant observations and daily field records.