Programa Universidade para Todos (ProUni): entre a democratização e a mercantilização do ensino superior

Abstract

This dissertation is about an academic research, dedicate to an university social work program know as ProUni. The dissertation try to find out if the goals of the program, that has emerged as a revolutionary proposal of the social inclusion of students sourced in historically least favored classes by the state in the universities, can, at certain points, be confused with the mercantilization, process of Brazilian higher education, according to scholars on the subject. To this assignment, the adopted dynamic was to analyze the academic literature focused on both reviews, of those who advocate ProUni is a valorous framework of social inclusion, both by bias who believe the program, was in truth, a way to hide the process to bring down the higher education to a pure and simple graduation certificate.