Entre a graduação e o trabalho: implicações da concomitância trabalho e estudo como elemento de distinção entre estudantes do ensino superior

Abstract

The processes of education systems expansion promote researches that try to understand how some elements found in the social structure of society develop mechanisms that may contribute either to the mitigation or to the maintenance of educational inequalities. The recent expansion of higher education followed by the privatization, institutional differentiation and the inclusion of historically excluded social groups of this educational level brings several new questions related to the effects caused by this kind of expansion, especially about the displacement from the vertical order to a horizontal dimension, marked by attributes of qualitative distinction. The central issue that motivates this study is nothing less but the implications on workstudy during graduation, since it is considered to be the most negative point for working students. Therefore, a horizontal dimension of educational inequality in higher education is analyzed through the effects of work on elements of distinction among students - institutions, courses/university degrees, shifts and performance achieved. There were used data from Enade, available by INEP, between 2007 and 2015, including all students who participated in the evaluation on this period. This study intends to contribute in the discussions about the expansion and inequalities in the higher education program, specifically on the perspective of the impacts of work for students who attend this system of education