A assistência estudantil nas políticas públicas educacionais de cunho neoliberal

Abstract

The general objective of this paper is to discuss the place of student assistance policy in the current context of federal public education. First, a critical analysis were carried out on the contradictions of a public policy promoted within the limits of the interests of neoliberal ideology, then, in a critical-analytical perspective; a brief analysis was carried out on Decree nº 7,234, of July 19, 2010, which provides for the Programa Nacional de Assistência Estudantil (PNAES). Finally, we presented the principles that guide the elaboration, implementation and execution of the student assistance policy. Methodologically, it is a literature review under the radical structuralism paradigm. The results indicated education as a possibility of construction, in view of changes in the historical trajectory of student assistance policy. Finally, expected to contribute to overcoming the condition of “needy”, often present in the life of the student assisted by the student assistance program.