As políticas afirmativas no ensino superior e o desenho institucional de justiça como equidade em Rawls

Abstract

The article resulted from debates and research in the Interdisciplinary Nucleus of Human Rights Education of the Federal University of Tocantins on policies of access and permanence in higher education. He analyzed the result of the quota policy in the student profile of federal universities in the light of Rawlsian justice. The reflections drew on data from the IV National Survey on the Socioeconomic and Cultural Profile of the Graduates of the Federal Institutions of Higher Education, the National Association of Leaders of the Federal Institutions of Higher Education with the National Forum of Pro-rectors of Community and Student Affairs. Referring to the principle of difference, he concludes that to operate effectively and fully in the realization of social justice, affirmative action measures should not only provide for positive discrimination on a single bias, which in the case of quotas for higher education only the issue of access without ensuring adequate conditions of permanence.