RECONTEXTUALIZING THE NATIONAL STUDENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAM: An Interpretation of Affirmative Action
Keywords: Permanence. Higher education. Race. Class
This qualification text presents the problem of this PhD research and it consists in answering how the Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) interpret, recontextualize, translate and act on the policy of the National Student Assistance Program (PNAES). The study will follow as a methodological path the field of qualitative research, ethnographic type, specifically case study (THIOLLENT, 1987). For analysis of the collected data, it relies on discourse analysis (BOURDIEU, 1999, ORLANDI, 2009 AND IÑIGUEZ, 2004). As the intention of the research is referenced in the interpretation and translation studies, it uses as theoretical basis the analysis of the policy cycle in Ball (2016) to improve the thesis that the PNAES can be considered an affirmative action policy. The theoretical analyzes pointed so far show that since the conception and genesis of HEIs, the proposal presented in different historical and social contexts is, above all, an exclusionary proposal, aimed at the formation of the elite to the elite, designed to maintain an order. social and economic situation that favored a small elite over a society that suffered from social inequalities and poverty.