A ASSISTÊNCIA AO ESTUDANTE NO CONTEXTO DA EXPANSÃO DA EDUCAÇÃO PROFISSIONAL E TECNOLÓGICA NO MARANHÃO: avaliação do processo de implementação

Abstract

Evaluative study of the implementation process of the Student Assistance Policy in the context of the Expansion Plan of Vocational and Technological Education in Maranhão. It starts with the perspective that the economic and social transmutation cause changes in the contemporary world of work, setting out new demands for the Common Professional Education and Technology. Also the Expansion Plan of Vocational and Technological Education is based on the principle of social inclusion and strengthened through the creation of the Federal Institutes of Education. The evaluation process seeks empirical references at the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Maranhão, Monte Castelo Campus, and focuses on access conditions and scope of the shares of the Student Assistance Policy, as well as the dynamics of the services offered and some products of these actions. The categories that underlie the analysis are: professional education, social inclusion and student assistance. It is considered that the implementation process of the PNAES (IFMA, Monte Castelo Campus) has promoted further actions relating to student assistance. It is believed that the criteria and instruments used in the Monte Castelo campus are consistent with the objectives of the National Student Assistance, however, further actions have not yet meet all the demand. It is considered that the objective conditions for conducting such activities are crucial to its success. Thus, despite some significant advances in terms of results, the evaluation indicates that infrastructural problems of order are compromising the conduct of that policy in the Monte Castelo Campus.