CONDIÇÃO JUVENIL E ESTRATÉGIAS DE JOVENS BOLSISTAS NO ENSINO SUPERIOR

Abstract

This study has had as proposition the investigation of the youthful condition articulated to the strategies used by the young scholarship holders from Scholarship University Program - SUP, originary from popular layers, to remain themselves in superior education, specially, in the courses of Science and Engineering Computation, from Universidade Católica de Goiás. Front to the transformations in the world of work, the new familiar compositions, school trajectories and others social and cultural practices present in the contemporaries societies it has been intended to apprehend constituent elements of dimensions related to the different ways of being young. As subsidies to the analyses studies of Bourdieu (1983; 1990; 1994; 1999; 2003; 2004), the researches developed by Foracchi (1965), Sposito (1989), Romanelli (2003), Zago (2006) had been considered - those have dedicated to know young university students, their conditions of study, work and the influence of their families in the school adaptation process-, as well as the research of Brazilian Youth Profile (2005). The young workers scholarship holders which were investigated have revealed traces that were explicited during the decor of the inquiry, one of them has consisted in the belief of that, with the ownership of the diploma, they could ascend socially, allied to the will of being well succeeded in the professional career by the domain of the technologies. As regards to the way of being young: the students have lived few moments of leisure or rest; they guided their choices based on the education received by their parents; the religion was the way to get resistance to surpass the difficulties of life, at the same time the religious space served as place of meeting with other young people; they have believed that the work, besides subsidizing part of their expenditures, symbolically, also has had the meaning of dignity and responsibility. In the way of being young college student, they have noticed, among others, the existence of fetish in the relation with the microcomputer and around the domain of knowledge in computer science area; the using of Internet as source of reading and information. In this perspective, to remain themselves in the superior education the students have dipped into strategies, identified in their own stories: the devotion to the studies; the symbolic contribution of the family; the receiving of the benefit from SUP and the work. According to the comprehension of the existing relations among youth, superior education, family, religion and work, it was concluded that youth, especially, the young worker scholarship holder, necessarily, needs to construct strategies to remain himself in the scientific field of superior education.