出版社：Educational Sciences R&D Unit of the University of Lisbon
摘要：This paper presents results of research carried out on young university students regularly
enrolled at Sergipe Federal University (UFS), the only public university of the State. These
young students come from popular segments of society who take part in the Programa
Conexoes de Saberes [Knowledge Connection Programme], which carries out initiatives
destined to encourage these kinds of students to go on to higher education identifying
their knowledge and main difficulties in remaining in the federal universities in the perspective
of overcoming the dichotomy between scientific knowledge and popular knowledge.
The schooling of most of these youths is continually submitted to “tension and
discontinuity”. Despite scarcity of research one can observe in Brazil a growing number
of youths that escape the vicious circle of poverty and low amount of schooling and who
make it to public university. How do some youths escape their “destiny” of marginality
and exclusion which theses sectors of society are usually “sentenced” to, and arrive at public
higher education? To answer these questions we opted for a qualitative methodology
placing the statements of these youths at the centre of the analysis.
