A Universidade na formação dos sujeitos que participam de movimentos sociais e coletivos: dimensões, limites e possibilidades.

Abstract

The present study aimed to approach the formation of university students and former university students who participate in social groups and movements. In order to unveil the dimensions, limits and possibilities of training these subjects in this democratic space of law, it was necessary to study higher education in Brazil and social and collective movements, their changes and the social conflicts of disadvantaged classes. In order to understand the process of formation in this globalized capitalist contradictory universe and higher education as a commodity, we interviewed students and alumni from Universities (public and private) in the region of the lower Santos. In each chapter, we articulate the empirical material to the theoretical contributions of authors such as, Paolo Norsella, Lalo Watanabe Minto, Maria da Glória Gonh, Hannah Arent, among others. In theory, the university holds the knowledge and articulation that permeates the construction of other subjects. For this, a specific bibliography on social movements and higher education was searched, trying to understand the records about the praxis and how public policies have their fundamental role in guaranteeing rights. We analyze the contents obtained based on the work of the author Maria Laura Puglisi Barbosa Franco ""Content Analysis in a clear and objective way"". Many students of militancy, collectives and social movements, have joined the public or private university, on account of Prouni or Fies, to obtain a professional formation or even to rescue the studies and thus occupy a future that results in changes. The methodology used is Bibliographic Research, enriched with interviews to better understand the training and political action of the subjects involved. As results, it is possible to affirm that, the university has the possibility to strengthen identity or to deconstitute them. We believe that this formation contributes to the construction of a university (public or private) that has assumed a counter-hegemonic position and that can offer a higher education that leads society to a more just and egalitarian education.