Banca de DEFESA: SILVIA LETICIA DA SILVA FERREIRA

DISTANCE EDUCATION AS AFFIRMATIVE ACTION IN RURAL FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PERNAMBUCO: a look from the perceptions of institutional managers and leaders of quilombola communities

affirmative action; black identity; distance education; quilombolas: college education.

The distance modality, understood as a proposal for public policy of affirmative action, makes it possible to reduce existing inequalities in access to higher education when reaching different levels of training. When we observe its characteristics of flexibilization of the relationship between time and space, the reduction of financial investment in some cases allows the distance modality to be thought of as a public policy of affirmative action that enables social mobility for different groups, enhancing access and strengthening of traditional communities. , among these, the quilombola communities. This dissertation project aims to seek the strengthening of black identity in the context of higher education, through the discussion and investigation of affirmative action policies and the distance education modality to be considered an affirmative action under construction, expanding the debate at UFRPE. It was delimited in the guiding question: What is the vision of institutional managers of the Federal Rural University of Pernambuco and the leaders of quilombola communities about Distance Education as an affirmative action for the strengthening of black identity? In its theoretical framework, three general sections and their detailed subdivisions will be worked on throughout the development of the research, they are the main ones: 1 What is the vision of institutional managers at the Federal Rural University of Pernambuco and the leaders of quilombola communities about Distance Education as an affirmative action for the strengthening of black identity? In its theoretical framework, three general sections and their detailed subdivisions will be worked on throughout the development of the research, they are the main ones: 1 What is the vision of institutional managers at the Federal Rural University of Pernambuco and the leaders of quilombola communities about Distance Education as an affirmative action for the strengthening of black identity? In its theoretical framework, three general sections and their detailed subdivisions will be worked on throughout the development of the research, they are the main ones: 1 - Affirmative Action Policies in Federal Education Institutions; 2 - Affirmative Actions and Black Identity; 3 - The Role of Distance Education as Affirmative Action for the strengthening of Black Identity. Considered an applied research with a predominantly qualitative approach, at an exploratory, descriptive level, using bibliographic research and document analysis. Having as a scenario and subjects: UFRPE with institutional managers and Quilombola Communities with their leaders. For data collection, an electronic questionnaire and a semistructured interview (online) will be used, through the video communication tool. Google Meet for its realization and recorded with the authorization of the participant. The use of the Categorical Content Analysis technique will prevail as a data analysis method, anchored in Bardin, in addition to the use of technological tools (transcription) that allow the organization and treatment of the information provided in the interview participants' testimonies. It is expected that the proposal presented will bring positive contributions to the research universe and also outside it, in the midst of existing implications (social, psychological, economic and cultural) in its various aspects, insisting on compromising the construction of identity.