STUDENT ASSISTANCE IN BRAZILIAN HIGHER EDUCATION: A CONCEPT ANALYSIS, HISTORICAL TRAJECTORY AND FORMALIZATION OF THE STUDENT ASSISTANCE POLICIES IN THE LIGHT OF THE ACHIEVEMENT OF CITIZENSHIP
Student Assistance, Citizenship, Higher Education, Public Policies
This study has as its theme the analysis of the student assistance policy of Brazilian federal universities, contemplating its conception, historical trajectory and formalization of policies in the light of the conquest of citizenship. The general objective of this work is, therefore, to revisit the historical trajectory of the student assistance policy in Brazilian higher education to understand and discuss the processes of conformation of its minimum concepts, its regulation and structuring. In this sense, it focused on analyzing the main influential socio-historical processes that made it possible to identify the main changes that occurred in the pattern of Brazilian citizenship, highlighting the following basic aspects: (i) institutionalization of historical demands of social movements as public policies; (ii) the complexity of these policies from the 2000s onwards; (iii) the adoption of affirmative action mechanisms; and (iv) the process of democratizing access to Brazilian Federal Institutions of Higher Education.