Assistência estudantil como instrumento de permanência na EPT: um guia para imersão na Política de Assistência Estudantil do IFPI (POLAE)

Abstract

This research, derived from Professional Master in Professional and Technological Education, has as theme the Student Assistance in Professional and Technological Education (PTE) implemented in Federal Institute of Education of Piauí (IFPI) through its Student Assistance Policy (POLAE). The research has as general objective to analyze how the access to the programs, services and actions of IFPI’s Student Assistance Policy can contribute to the quality of the students’ permanence. Its specific objectives are: to describe the actions of IFPI’s Student Assistance Policy, to investigate the information that IFPI’s students hold about POLAE besides the existing forms of POLAE dissemination within IFPI, and to elaborate an educational product through which the programs, services and actions of Student Assistance at IFPI can be disseminated. The theoretical framework includes the thematic: education, professional education, public policies, school permanence and student assistance, as well as federal legislation and IFPI documents. For the field research, a questionnaire was used to collect data from students enrolled in the 2nd year/period in the courses offered by the IFPI/campus Parnaíba. From the collected and condensed data, a quanti-qualitative analysis was made and the content analysis technique by Bardin (2016) was used. As a result of the bibliographic and documental research, it became evident the importance of the programs, services and actions provided in the POLAE for the school permanence with quality of IFPI’s students. However, the field research showed that some students still have insufficient and mistaken knowledge about POLAE, revealing the need to expand the ways in which the policy is disseminated, which is the purpose of the POLAE Guide, educational product elaborated from the research