Os fatores que podem influenciar o desempenho de bolsistas ProUni da educação superior brasileira: um olhar a partir da nova sociologia da educação

Abstract

Pioneering research studies performed by Coleman Report (1964) mark and structure the researches in educational context about school effectiveness and student learning. These studies point out that the students who usually present better performance at school have a higher cultural capital or better background, because they are from socioeconomic and cultural situations that favor educational development. Evidently, it is not a rule; there are cases and exceptions in which this tendency is not confirmed. One of these exceptions seems to be ProUni (Programa Universidade para Todos). Early studies about this program have been demonstrating that their scholarship holders, in many courses, present superior performance than their paying classmates, who possibly came from more favored socio cultural environments. In this dissertation, the leading question refers to the reasons for that improved performance. In other words, which another reason other than the ones already known in the literature (background and school factor) may be influencing the good performance of these popular media students? The research that originated th is work is a bibliographic and field research, it included the realization of semi structured interviews with students of a Higher Education Institution in Southern Brazil. The goal was expatiate on and reflect about the hypothesis of the influence of sociological factors, based on Bernard Charlot and Bernard Lahire, focusing on the students‟ family structures as an answer to the question which has been raised. The study revealed that the concepts considered in this research – such as familiar forms of written culture, economic conditions and arrangements, domestic moral order, forms of familiar authority, forms of pedagogical intervention, mobilization and desire to learn – may be considered determinant for a good performance of students from popular backgrounds in Higher Education.