Da labuta ao conhecimento: os sentidos de ser estudante trabalhador no CAHL

Abstract

The present monograph presented as a Course Completion Work in Social Work, aims to compose the senses of being a hardworking student and present the challenges in the permanence and conclusion of higher education at the Federal University of Recôncavo da Bahia (UFRB), especially in the Center of Arts Humanities and Language (CAHL). The passage of this student profile is characterized by some confrontations of the social issue, which directly imply the use of university space and the quality of academic training, understanding the dynamics of this student profile, means not only offering possibilities of access to university, but also means provide conditions for student stay. The research proved that higher education has advanced a lot with regard to access to university, but it still needs to offer effective conditions of permanence. This research sought to show the reality of the working student, through semi-structured interviews carried out with six working students and two professors from CAHL, as well as bibliographic review and survey of secondary data from the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) and administration of the University.