Auxílio à aquisição de material pedagógico implicado à permanência e desenvolvimento de estudantes na educação superior

Abstract

This scientific work integrates the studies of the Policy and Management of Basic and Higher Education Research Line, of the Professional Master's Course of the Postgraduate Program in Public Policies and Educational Management (PPPG) at the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM). It addresses the issue of assistance and permanence policies for students in higher education, discussing: What relationships and contributions of the Benefit Aid for the Acquisition of Pedagogical Material, attributed to undergraduate students in Dentistry at UFSM in the period from 2017 to 2019, referring to permanence, to the process of academic development and course completion? And, in this sense, its general objective is “to understand the relationships and contributions of the Benefit Aid for the Acquisition of Pedagogical Material, attributed to undergraduate students in Dentistry at UFSM in the period from 2017 to 2019, referring to the permanence, to the process of academic development and to the completion of the course”. A methodology of a quantitative and qualitative nature was adopted, based on documental research techniques, online questionnaire and semi-structured interview, based on the professional and academic context of the researcher, having as collaborators students and graduates of the Dentistry Course contemplated with the benefit from 2017 to 2019, as well as UFSM managers. Content analysis and descriptive statistics were used for quantitative and qualitative data analysis. The conclusions point to the contribution and expansion of the technical-scientific knowledge of the Assistance for the Acquisition of Pedagogical Material about its scope, pertinence, impacts and qualification of the management processes of this benefit at UFSM. The Assistance for the Acquisition of Pedagogical Material has contributed towards promoting the development of students/graduates in socioeconomic vulnerability, favoring a good use in the training process, in addition to being considered a policy that allows the emotional security of the beneficiary, also allowing their permanence and completion of the Dentistry course on an equal basis with other students, thus, a policy that works to reduce inequalities. The perspective worked on in this research contributes to strengthen the democratic principle, in addition to offering transparency and dissemination of the student assistance policy, qualifying the institutional work in the constitutional principles in force. As a result of the research, a flowchart was developed containing, in more detail, the steps that involve the work related to the Benefit of Aid for the Acquisition of Pedagogical Material and, through it, a flowchart was suggested for the implementation of an annual report to be made available on the institutional portal of the Dean of Student Affairs (PRAE).