EDUCATIONAL POLICIES OF THE PT GOVERNMENTS AND THE IMPACT ON THE PROFILE OF UNDERGRADUATES IN PSYCHOLOGY
Keywords:
Reuni, Prouni, Fies, non-elitization, training in psychologyAbstract
The objective of this article was to analyze the impact of educational policies for higher
education during the Workers' Party/PT governments (2003-2016), regarding the profile of Psychology
undergraduate students in Brazil. This is a documental study, based on microdata from the Census of
Higher Education and the National Examination of Student Performance, referring to the 2015 cycle,
released in the public domain by the Ministry of Education. Students from public and private Higher
Education Institutions were selected to compose the final sample of 18,788 students. The analysis was
performed using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) software, version 21, based on the
chi-square test (χ2) of independence and 0.05 significance level (p<0.05). It was observed the access of
a new profile of students coming from families with lower income; with mothers and fathers with less
education; coming from public schools; being the first in the family to attend an undergraduate course. In this logic, it is possible to understand the importance of Prouni, Fies and Reuni both in terms of
widening access and in terms of a certain de-elitization of the profile of Psychology students in Brazil. It
is noteworthy that such a change has been brought about by the boosting of policies to expand access to
higher education, especially those aimed at the private sector (Fies and Prouni).
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