The permanence of black students in the IFMT: the material and the symbolic in the Affirmative Action Policy (2018-2020)
Affirmative Actions; IFMT; Material and symbolic permanence
This study aimed to analyze the conditions of material and symbolic permanence of black students who entered through Affirmative Actions, in the racial modality, in the high school technical course in Agriculture of the IFMT Campus Juína. The research is about the discussion of material and symbolic permanence in the Affirmative Action Policy regarding Law 12.711/12. For this, we started from the understanding that the approval of this law, also known as “Quotas Law”, promoted the access for black students to Ifets. Given its relevance, and considering that this entrance alone does not guarantee permanence, it is necessary to investigate how the IFMT Campus Juína has solved the challenge of ensuring that these students remain. Regarding the material dimension of permanence, the emphasis will be on the aspect (s) of the programs and actions developed by the Student Assistance Policy; in relation to the symbolic dimension, the research explores the pedagogical aspect(s) capable of providing the student's sense of belonging in the school environment. This is a descriptive research with a qualitative-quantitative approach that uses documentary and bibliographic research for theoretical ground, with data collection through a semi-structured questionnaire via Google Forms and an interview via Google Meet carried out with students from the high school technical course in Agriculture. For data analysis, we used the methodological approach proposed by Laurence Bardin (2011), the content analysis technique, for the systematization and categorization of data. It was found that despite the relevance of Affirmative Action Policies for the entry of different groups into education and the breadth of research on the subject, there is still a gap of studies, particularly in relation to permanence, even more if we return to investigation for black quota students of the Federal Network of Education, Science and Technology in the high school modality