A formação em psicologia no contexto da democratização do ensino superior

Abstract

The higher education in Brazil carries a structure that privileges the interests of the bourgeoisie and excludes students from the working-class. In this way, the elitism that is a striking element in the Universities, has also characterized the Psychology Education throughout its history. Therefore, it is pertinent to ask: this segment of the population that has historically been excluded from access to higher education goes through the democratization policies to have more contact with Psychology Education? Have the democratization policies, of the last ten years, contributed to a possible "anti-elitism" of Psychology Education? Thus, this work aims to analyze the scenario of Psychology Education in Brazil, in the context of the democratization of Higher Education. And as specific objectives: characterize the current panorama of expansion and distribution of Psychology courses in Brazil; and identify which factors of the policies of democratization reverberated in the Psychology Education. For this, an investigation was carried out using public domain information located in a database of the Ministry of Education (MEC) and the National Institute of Educational Research Anísio Teixeira (INEP), collecting information in microdata from databases such as e-MEC, Census of Higher Education and ENADE. The main results show that Psychology courses are distributed geographically heterogeneously in the Brazilian regions. The profile of the students has shown changes concerning ethnic issues, about the number of students benefited by scholarships and financing, besides the predominance of the night course, which may lead us to assume that the Psychology course is composed mostly of student-workers.