A CONTRARREFORMA NEOLIBERAL NA CONTRAMÃO DO DIREITO À EDUCAÇÃO: uma análise da assistência estudantil na pós-graduação da UFPB

Abstract

The present study is configured as an undergraduate thesis related to the Social Work Course at Universidade Federal da Paraíba - UFPB. It analyzes the impacts of the neoliberal counterreform on the Student Assistance of the post-graduation at UFPB. Assuming that the counterreform, that takes place in Brazil since the 1990‟s, has an ideopolitical, economic and social targeting, which is sustained by the removal of rights through the lack of accountability of the State in reference of the social policies and, particularly, the college education, consolidating the market as the capitalist sociability of the centrality through the disruption and the wrecking. With regards to the methodological procedures, it is an exploratory, quantitative and also qualitative research with the Social Work from the Pro-Rectory‟s post-graduate studies by an interview, resorting to a content analysis by a thematic categorization, having a critical-dialectical perspective as a theoretical-methodological framework. In this sense, the questions that guide this study were affirmed in the results analysis when they demonstrated that the Student Assistance - as an intersectoral program - of the post-graduation at UFPB suffers the impacts caused by the neoliberal policies, substantially the lack of financing of the public services, expressed under a focusing/selectivity of the actions and the centralisation of compensatory policies. Finally, we bring notes about the institutionalization of these services, that characterise the Student Assistance‟s biggest challenge on the context of a crisis aggravated by the authoritarian political landscape that we experience.