The law 12.711/2012 and the Tourism undergraduate courses from UFMG, UFOP e UFRRJ – Similarities, singularities, challenges in the consolidation process.
Public Policy Evaluation; Affirmative action policy; Education; Tourism; ethnic-racial relationships
Federal Law 12.711 / 2012, better known as the Quota Law, is still in the process of being consolidated in all Higher Education Institutions (HEI’s) in Brazil and its evaluation is already of interest to several researchers. This affirmative action policy is enabling a contingent of blacks, mulattos and indigenous people, previously partially excluded from the federal public higher education system, to have access to a high standard, free public university. The Quota Law made it easier for HEI’s to implement at least 25% (twenty-five percent) admissions foreseen in such Law each year, reaching 100% (one hundred percent) within four (4) years. The fact that the researcher is a Turismologist and professor of the undergraduate course in Tourism at UFRRJ was one of the reasons for this course to be the reference of this research. The analytical lenses of this thesis is aimed at answering the following problem: Within the context of affirmative action policies, Federal Law 12.711 / 2012, is it possible to identify what were the challenges faced by the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Ouro Preto (UFOP), and Rural do Rio de Janeiro (UFRRJ )Tourism courses, in the process of consolidation of the quota law? In this sense, when investigating this interface established between these three federal universities, it is emphasized that the scope of this study is given by the composition of the chosen participants, African-Brazilian managers, graduates and graduating students who accessed the university through the quota law and their perceptions about such theme. The method chosen to develop this research was the integration between quantitative and qualitative methods, since to reliably analyze a given situation it is possible to use quantitative data and qualitative analysis of data obtained through quantitative instruments, among other methodological concerns, aiming to avoid distortions resulting from the subjectivity that terminates a research and that may influence the researcher. As a teacher of one of the courses investigated and being in charge of the course when the Quota Law was implemented, led to the use of action-research, because according to Thiollent (1985, p. 14), action-research conceives a close relationship to an action or the resolution of a collective problem in which researchers and participants representative of the situation or problem are involved in a cooperative or participative way. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with managers of the academic area of each HEI, course coordinators graduates and graduating students. Having the theoretical support as background and the material collected, the research results showed that there are more similarities than singularities in the process of consolidation of the quota law in the studied HEI’s. Among the similarities are the lack of preparation of the academic community for the reception of quota holders, lack of knowledge of the quota law, implementation of hetero-identification committees, little discussion and PPC's in disagreement with the theme. The singularities are due to the publication, by UFRRJ, of the egress Portal and the initial adoption of the percentage of 50% of vacancies for quota holders since 2013