Políticas educacionais e juventude rural no ensino superior

Abstract

The article aims to analyze the educational policies of access to higher education, recently introduced in Brazil in particular, the Programa Universidade para Todos (Prouni) and relations with rural youth, economically a disadvantage. The information used refer to the institutional data from the federal government and the reflections on rural youth, scholars, based in the Territory Centro-Serra, Rio Grande do Sul. The analysis includes the understandings on access to higher education for rural youth based on incentive policies for higher education in private institutions. The study identified that the Prouni provided an opportunity to the rural youth attend higher education in private educational institutions, however, the majority of rural youth remains in marginal condition in access to educational policy, mainly by the cultural capital inherited from peasant condition that the habit of reading, access to books and dedication to studies is in a duel with work in the fields, fundamental strategy to maintain social reproduction of rural families. The Prouni is, to some extent, the universalization and democratization of access to higher education at the regional level, which provided the qualification portion of rural youth keeping their ties with the territory and strengthening the cultural capital. However, education policy is invisible to the social category and insufficient to provide broad access to rural youth and youth in general that demands higher skill levels.