Eficácia social da política pública de cotas no curso de medicina da Universidade Federal De Campina Grande – UFCG: compreendendo as trajetórias acadêmicas de alunos/as cotistas

Abstract

The study presents research carried out on the policy of racial quotas, typified as an affirmative action, with the aim of reducing economic, social and educational inequalities between people of different racial ethnicities. However, as important as the consolidation of Law No. 12,711, of August 2012 (known as the Quota Law) is to analyze the Law in terms of assistance, permanence and monitoring of these groups, which are benefited by it, not limited to just too subjective access for the academic environment, but to the causes, effects and implications generated by it. For this purpose, this research aimed to analyze the academic trajectories of students in the CCBS/UFCG Medical Course, and to understand the social effectiveness that the Quota Law proposes as an affirmative action. The research is justified by its relevance in the evaluation of public policies for higher education and, above all, due to the need to evaluate this affirmative policy, which completed ten years of implementation in the daily life of Brazilian Universities. Which focuses on a course desired by the Brazilian elite, over the centuries of our colonization, through the formation of the Brazilian National State and the organization of the Republic, reaching the present day as the most popular course, in Institutions, Public and with the highest cost high in Private Institutions. During the research, the phenomenological method was used, valuing the meaning and relevance of the human experience, about a certain phenomenon, and corroborating this approach, technical procedures of bibliographical and documental research were used, in line with the case study. As for the results obtained during the research, it was observed, in the general context, that there are no considerable differences in relation to the general average of quota holders, compared to non-quota holders. However, it was identified, through the voices of quota students, that there is prejudice and discrimination inserted in the context of the course. Finally, with regard to the access category, the Quota Law has proven to be effective, contributing to the growth of diversity at universities and making it possible to form new academic references for quota holders, who envision the Medicine Course no longer as an impossible dream, but as a possible career to be realized.