Analysis of the profile of egresses of teaching courses of Maranhão State University at national student performance examination (ENADE) (2008-2017)

Abstract

This paper analyses the profile of egresses from Higher Education Institutions (IES) from data produced in a nationwide research directed by different public universities. It is developed from the problematic of analysing the profile of students from the IES, especially the Projects of Biology, Literature, Mathematic and Pedagogy courses in the scope of the theoretical-methodological studies of UNIVERSITASBr network. It uses as procedure the analysis of data from the National Student Performance Examination (Enade) from 2008 to 2017. It cut the data related to the following categories: monthly income, work and income perspective at the period, parents' schooling, motivation for the choice of the course, colour and race and institution of conclusion of high school. The results indicate that during the years analysed there were advances on the referred courses, as ingress of relatives in Higher Education and the incentive of teachers of public education system to the insertion in teaching undergraduate courses. It was also verified a few challenges, as the demand for investment, especially at Pedagogy course, with attention to the professional perspectives of the course participants. Finally, we understand that the reformulation of the teaching courses, proposed by BNC-formation evinces threats to the teaching dimension of the training of pedagogues, what can suggest disregard of the indicators of Enade for the elaboration of public policies.