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Toward a New Concept of Student Support: Lessons from the Recent Experience in Brazil’s Federal Universities

Mitigating Inequality: Higher Education Research, Policy, and Practice in an Era of Massification and Stratification

ISBN: 978-1-78560-291-7, eISBN: 978-1-78560-290-0

Publication date: 27 November 2015

Abstract

This paper aims to contribute to the development of a new concept of support for higher education students in public universities in Brazil. The recent expansion of enrollment in federal universities in Brazil, due to the affirmative action policies and increase in the number of admissions, has increased the number of students in need of special support, including financial help and special programs for academic support (language courses, enrollment in special projects, and others). We explore different dimensions of student support in order to contribute to a more complex perspective about the demands and expectations of these students.

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Acknowledgment

Many of the ideas developed in this chapter have been drawn from the collective work developed by the research project “Introduction to a Sociology of Students: An analysis of students benefited by quota policies at the Education Course in UFRJ (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro).” I specially thank the colleagues of the research team, Prof. Maria Ligia Barbosa, from the Institute of Social Sciences at UFRJ (Project Coordinator); Prof. Gabriela Honorato, School of Education, UFRJ; and Prof. Hustana Vargas, School of Education, Fluminense Federal University (UFF). I also thank FAPERJ (Rio de Janeiro’s Foundation for Science Support) for their financial support.

Citation

Heringer, R. (2015), "Toward a New Concept of Student Support: Lessons from the Recent Experience in Brazil’s Federal Universities", Mitigating Inequality: Higher Education Research, Policy, and Practice in an Era of Massification and Stratification (Advances in Education in Diverse Communities, Vol. 11), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 191-207. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1479-358X20150000011012

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Emerald Group Publishing Limited