O DIREITO À EDUCAÇÃO E A MEDIAÇÃO DA ASSISTÊNCIA SOCIAL NO IFG: UMA SIMBIOSE NECESSÁRIA.

Abstract

The theme of this thesis is the implementation of actions whose purpose is to ensure equal conditions for students who enter the Instituto Federal de Goiás (Brazilian Federal Educational Institute of Goiás) to continue their courses, by means of social welfare policies, in the historical setting of peripheral capitalism and the limits imposed by students’ living conditions in exercising their rights to education. Its overall aim has been to investigate the concretization of the right to education for students benefited from the IFG’s social welfare policy as well as to verify to what extent such policy has been able to strengthen its recipients’ objectives of academic training, continuance and achievement. To this end, literature, documental and empirical researches have been carried out. Semi-structured interviews have been used with students who have benefited from IFG’s assistance program, as tools of data collection. Thus, this study displays a range of public policies of education, highlighting technological education and IFG’s history, as well as the conceptualization of social assistance, regarding it as a support for effecting policies for students. It has enabled us to understand the real connection between education, work and social welfare policies, among which we find those of education and social assistance, in a capitalist society. This work has allowed us to understand that social assistance is necessary as a right that makes the stay of low-income students in school possible, but for that to happen, such aid must be more than material or financial support, for it doesn’t reach all of those who need it, neither is it able to provide for students’ basic needs.