"Você não bota mó fé, mas eu vou atrás": relatos de estudantes prounistas sobre violência, exclusão e resistência numa universidade elitizada

Abstract

This work analyzes the gap between the promise of democratizing access to higher education, promoted by Programa Universidade para Todos (Prouni) and the reality of the student persistence of scholarship students in elitist universities.. Drawing from the researcher's own trajectory, the objective is to understand the lived experiences of two interviewed Prouni students, using a phenomenologically-inspired qualitative methodology that employs the narrative interview (proposed by Elza Dutra) as the main research technique to unveil these experiences. Furthermore, the research uses escrevivência as a political and analytical tool, weaving the author's voice with the narratives in question. The data analysis reveals that securing admission is just the beginning of a trajectory marked by symbolic violence, psychological distress, and everyday exclusion. The work concludes that, faced with institutional negligence regarding student persistence, the students develop complex "juggling acts" of (re)existence. These acts manifest both in individual survival and in collective political organization, thereby subverting the logic of exclusion