Atair Silva de Sousa
Pesquisador em
Informações e Avaliações Educacionais no Instituto Nacional de Estudos e
Pesquisas Educacionais – Anísio Teixeira – Inep.
Doctorate Candidate -
States, Society and Education. University of São Paulo (USP).
atair.sousa@usp.br - http://lattes.cnpq.br/2459273724635926 - https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1355-8797
Verônica Sena Cruz de Sousa
Graduanda em Pedagogia na Universidade de Brasília (UnB).
232019231@aluno.unb.br
- http://lattes.cnpq.br/9307021162288412
- https://orcid.org/0009-0000-0102-8214
ABSTRACT
This paper briefly discusses the struggle for access
to higher education for students who have historically been excluded
from this level of education. These students come from the most sensitive
social strata of Brazilian society. This population of students is more
vulnerable due to their low family income, color, race and specific needs
(people with some kind of disability). The aim is to ascertain the validity of
the legislation in correcting this historical debt to this population of
students, with regard to the right to higher education, on a federal institute Campus.
At the same time, this right is based on human rights as one of the rights of
the human being. The methodology used in this research has a mixed qualitative
and quantitative approach, which includes document analysis and a search for
data available from the National Institute of Educational Studies and Research
- Anísio Teixeira - Inep. The results are promising and point to expected
percentages of enrollment of students from the most vulnerable social classes
at this level of education. They are evidence that the legislation in force,
which ensures the democratization of access to higher education, has been
effective in correcting inequality and inequity, although it needs to be
updated.
Keywords: Right to Education. Human Rights. Higher Education. Quota students.
