O desenvolvimento do esporte enquanto política de assistência estudantil na Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora

Abstract

The present dissertation was developed at the Professional Master‟s Degree in Educational Management and Assessment (PPGP, in Portuguese) of the Center for Public Policies and Educational Assessment at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora. With the process of democratization in the access to higher education, a new kind of student enrolled at Brazilian public universities. Students in situation of public vulnerability had access to undergraduate courses, demanding from student public policies actions aiming at the permanence of such students as well as towards academic achievement. The National Program of Student Assistance (PNAES, in Portuguese), Decree 7.234/2010, translates into several actions having as goals the permanence of students in undergraduate courses, reducing social and regional inequalities, reducing evasion and retention and social inclusion through education. Among such actions, there is a plan of developing sport activities. It was verified that the Department of Student Affairs – PROAE, in Portuguese of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora, focus of this research, was not developing actions related to sports. From this scenario, it becomes important to verify the reasons that led to not following the sportive actions by the PROAE and the reason why such omission remain nowadays. We intend with the present dissertation to propose solutions in order to implement actions in the field of sports, aiming at fulfilling the guidelines provided by PNAES. Over the course of the research, we have verified a few hurdles to the implementation of sportive actions in student affairs. Such difficulties were connected to the narrow understanding of the nature of student affairs and the shortage of human and financial resources, as well as amenities at the university. Faced with such hurdles, we have developed a few proposals, such as: awareness campaigns in digital media and reviewing the Orientation Program to widen the student body understanding regarding student assistance; student participation in the management and assessment of the actions at PROAE; and raising awareness among students on the connection between regular physical activities and improvement in quality of life during their undergraduate years. Regarding the structure of the campus and its amenities, we have presented a plan of expansion with six actions: the creation of a sports committee, the request of a member from the Physical Education faculty to compose the team at PROAE, the establishment of partnerships towards human resources, the establishment of a partnership towards the use of the amenities at the College of Physical Education, the use of other amenities on campus to develop sports projects and the request of resources from the university to conduct new projects. We have proposed a sports project of student assistance at UFJF that considers every student of undergraduate classroom courses as its target audience and by means of a set of actions that has as its goal to incentivize sports practice among the students may come in many shapes, not only in the offering of guided activities, but also providing incentive for such actions to be proposed by the students themselves.