O imperativo da inclusão nas universidades comunitárias gaúchas: produzindo "atitudes de inclusão"?

Abstract

This Master’s dissertation analyzes how the productivity of imperative inclusion in the Contemporary is moving not only the society and schools, but also the Community Universities of Rio Grande do Sul. For the methodological approach, the websites of the twelve Gaucho Community Universities (Southernmost Brazil Community Universities) were taken as a visibility field for the research, which aimed to find out what universities picture as inclusion in higher education, and which inclusion concept (s) lay (s) the work of those institutions. The dissertation was guided by the theoretical perspective of post-metaphysics, in which both the knowledge and the subjects are constituted according to the look we put on them, as well as the position they occupy in the social network. To carry out the analysis of the materials that make up the corpus of this study, the concepts of in/exclusion, accessibility, imperative, and governmentality were used. The meaningful units that were made up from the material available on the websites of universities dealt with: access and accessibility coupled with social inclusion; programs and projects for students to stay in higher education; and the inclusion as a marketing strategy in Gaucho Community Universities. Through the results of this study, it was possible to point out that: social inclusion is the most inclusive concept emerging in the institutions surveyed that is accomplished, mainly, when joining the university. Such access, aimed at different populations, but especially for people on lower economic scale, allows the entry of many people who at other instances would not make the university. However, it is not enough to grant or facilitate the entry, it is necessary that universities develop strategies to receive the subjects and keep them included. Thus, the research aimed to investigate if the Gaucho Community Universities produce “attitudes of inclusion”, with the creation of various types of programs and projects seeking both the access and the permanence of several groups of subjects in higher education. Such “attitudes of inclusion”, when visualized on the websites, may become marketing strategies of those institutions, since they show, in different ways, how they get prepared and try to be unique in meeting the requirement of inclusion.