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Trying to get there: the social experiences of underprivileged students in their attempts to reach Higher Education in Sao Paulo

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Author(s):
Eduardo Vilar Bonaldi
Total Authors: 1
Document type: Doctoral Thesis
Press: São Paulo.
Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD)
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Examining board members:
Sylvia Gemignani Garcia; Ana Maria Fonseca de Almeida; Edison Ricardo Emiliano Bertoncelo; Alvaro Augusto Comin; Graziela Serroni Perosa
Advisor: Sylvia Gemignani Garcia
Abstract

This work aims to reconstruct the educational and social trajectories of underprivileged students in their attempts to access Higher Education by attending a free-tuition prep course, located in the north of the city of Sao Paulo. First, the study seeks to delineate and understand the social genesis of both the aspirations towards Higher Education and the difficulties and barriers subjectively experienced by these students. Besides evidencing the specific conditions that might pave the way of these students towards what they acknowledge as successful paths, the study also seeks to demonstrate how the different peer groups in which they are engaged can be reflected in their different ways of experiencing their transitions to adulthood. Finally, the thick political atmosphere that characterizes the initiative has also conducted the study to investigate how affinities or dissonance between the origins and trajectories of the students, on one side, and the teacher of this prep course, on the other structure the interactional dynamics from which the transmission of political dispositions, as well as the inclinations towards determined career paths (in both the university system and the job market), can be observed. (AU)

FAPESP's process: 12/14068-3 - Aiming at the public university from the public school: school dispositions and cultural practices among students from a prep course within the city of Sao Paulo
Grantee:Eduardo Vilar Bonaldi
Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate