A educação a distância e as ações afirmativas no ensino superior: interfaces dialógicas entre percepções de gestores, discentes e lideranças quilombolas

Abstract

Distance Education - EAD is present in public and private universities and has enhanced the access of a significant number of the Brazilian population to education. Current studies show that, the literature covers the expansion of the sport in its various levels of training in Brazil. Distance learning, when associated with Affirmative Action Policies, represents a tool for access to higher education potential, as well as the inclusion and social mobility of groups, such as underrepresented groups. Based on this context, this screen research sought to investigate the perceptions of institutional managers, students of the Federal Rural University of Pernambuco and quilombola leaders, about Distance Education and its contributions to Affirmative Action policies to strengthen the access and permanence of people from quilombola communities. The research scenario was the Federal Rural University of Pernambuco-UFRPE, with its institutional managers and quilombola students participating in the Bolsa Permanência Program, the executive coordination of CONAQ and the leadership of the Quilombola Community Povoação de São Lourenço. Considered an applied research with a predominantly qualitative approach, at an exploratory and descriptive level, bibliographic research and document analysis were used. Through the application of electronic questionnaires and semi-structured interviews, data were collected that were analyzed and discussed in the demographic phases through descriptive statistics,Likertand thematic content analysis, anchored in Bardin's (2011) methodological technique. It can be seen, in the results, that EAD has factors that contribute to the strengthening of affirmative measures in access to Higher Education, in the inclusion of new groups in access to education, it is able to promote social mobility in quilombola communities, although the challenges to to be fought are notable and were affirmed in the statements of the subjects participating in the research. Most see distance learning's potential, however limitations exist and insist on existing, making its adoption unfeasible in certain communities. However, the main proposals presented to the three types of subjects in the study, from a specific reservation system for quilombola remnants, permanence student assistance programs for EAD students, offer of short professional courses in partnership with NEAD and UAEADTec for quilombola communities, were well accepted, and will serve as a suggestion for new measures, actions and initiatives that the university can adopt and run. The construction of an egalitarian dialogue with listening, with a space for debates to develop new inclusive policies that can represent the quilombolas through their speeches and traditional knowledge. The research was approved by the Ethics Committee, which was submitted via Plataforma Brasil actions and initiatives that the university can adopt and execute. The construction of an egalitarian dialogue with listening, with a space for debates to develop new inclusive policies that can represent the quilombolas through their speeches and traditional knowledge. The research was approved by the Ethics Committee, which was submitted via Plataforma Brasil actions and initiatives that the university can adopt and execute. The construction of an egalitarian dialogue with listening, with a space for debates to develop new inclusive policies that can represent the quilombolas through their speeches and traditional knowledge. The research was approved by the Ethics Committee, which was submitted via Plataforma Brasil.