COSTA, V. L.; COSTA, Valdriana Lira da.
Abstract:
We analyzed the academic path of quilombola students from the Boa Vista Community, in the
the municipality fo Baião/ PA at UNIFESSPA, exploring the conditions os access and
permanence, to map the academic path of quilombola students who joined UNIFESSPA
through the affirmative action policy; learn about the trajectory of quilombola students from
the Boa Vista Community at UNIFESSPA; understand the barriers encountered and their
possible consequences; understand the alternatives found by student quilombolas to meet the
needs they faced; and reflect on the sociocultural impacts of the special selection process (PSE)
for student quilombolas and the quilombo They belong to. From the question-problem, how has
the academic path of students from the Boa Vista quilombola Community been, in terms of
permanence at the Federal University of South and Southeast Pará- UNIFESSPA? We sought
to study some authors, such as: Bourdieu (1983), Bosi (1994), Gomes (1997), Thompsom
(1997), Pinto (1999), Leite (2000), Fabrini (2006), Bourdieu (2007), Nogueira (2008),
Domingues e Gomes (2013), Silva (2014), Nascimento (2016), Santos (2017), Meireles (2020),
Pinto (2021), Farias (2021); Costa e Medeiros (2022), Lopes (2022), Moehlecke (2002),
Munanga, (2005), Alves, (2020), among others. In this sense, the use of in-depth interviews,
based on the use of the autobiographical method, was one of the methods used, givem the Strong
participation of the individual, who is committed to the processo of reflection based on his
interest and understanding of the Other and the self, considering my experience at the Federal
University of Pará (UFPA), with the technique of oral history. In order to obtain the data, the
use of WhatsApp digital media resources was used, followed by interpersonal conversations in
loco in order to know the perception of the interviewed studentes in relation to their experience
at the University. The results indicate that the presence of Quilombolas from Boa Vista in higher
two had a significant increase, going from two students at UFPA in 2016 and 2023 to 16 at
UNIFESSPAin 2023, in addition to issues related to satying at the University, since all
employees are dependente on the scholarship to stay at UNIFESSPA. Therefore, even with the
difficuties encountered in academic permanence, of the six students from Quilombo Boa Vista
who participated in the reseanch, Only two reported dropping out of the course at the time, in
the History and Mechanical Engineering courses, the others continue to face the difficulties of
teaching higher education and more the challenges to follow as quilombolas in the university.
