Apoio aos discentes cotistas: o Programa de Iniciação Científica PIBIC – Af/CNPq na UFJF

Abstract

This paper is the product of research accomplished in the master degree of Management and Evaluation of Public Education – CAED/ UFJF, with its subject matter being the Affirmative Actions politics at Universidade Federal de Juiz de For a (UFJF), focusing on the Institutional Program of Scholarships for Scientific Initiation (Programa Institucional de Bolsas de Iniciação Científica nas Ações Afirmativas/ CNPq or PIBIC-Af), since the affirmative actions aimed at quota holders, especially the ones of educational content, seem to demand more investment and new policies by the institution. In this sense, this paper aims at evaluating how PIBIC-Af collaborates for the inclusion of quota holders, as well as identifying the greatest positive impacts during the upbringing of the students who participate in the program. The study is justified given the importance of the quota system for correcting the entrance discrepancies, and by the need of inclusive policies that promote quality in the duration of the courses for those who entered university through this program. In this dissertation a qualitative methodological approach was adopted, in which semi-structured interviews were conducted with professors and students who participated in the program from the year 2015 to 2016, with the director and Ombudsman of Affirmative Actions at UFJF. Throughout the method, a bibliographic search on the addressed theme also occurred. As a theoretical reference, we highlight Beraldo and Magrone, Bourdieu and Canaan and Nogueira. The PIBIC-Af, as the interviews analysis suggests, acts firstly as an important educational instrument for the inclusion of students who entered via quota, and secondly as a tool for their academic development, improving their motivation, critical sense and investigative capacity, besides enhancing content assimilation and building knowledge. Through the findings in this research, an Educational Intervention Plan was created in order to suggest possible measures to enlarge similar efforts and promote the growth of the quota holders, as well as to assure a culture of diversity and inclusion.