Abstract
This article aims to analyze the awareness of scholarship students of the University for All Program (ProUnistas) from the conception they have about their experiences and insertion in undergraduate courses. First, a historical description of the Brazilian higher education, focusing on educational policy ProUni was made; then a reading of Critical Psychology and the role of psychologists in Higher Education was performed; finally, a description of the Consciousness Process was conducted. The techniques used for search data were one of the authors’ field diaries of the face-to-face encounters and a virtual ethnography meetings of a virtual group of ProUnistas. Five categories of analysis were systematized based on the virtual ethnography and, in addition, one (totaling six) additional category of analysis was included out ot the four field diaries. The identified categories were: Students Care and Permanence, Proof of income, Group organization, Prejudice, Vision of ProUni, and Solidarity between ProUnistas. The analysis of data established a relation between the objectives the information obtained. A greater number of women were found to be present in the virtual and face-to-face groups. In the virtual group only the first form of consciousness - alienation - was found in most students. In the in-person meetings, it was possible to identify all forms of this process, because students experience joint organization. It was concluded that it was possible to identify differences in the awareness of ProUnistas starting from spaces for self-organization processes. Further studies on how prejudice experienced by ProUnistas influences their process of awareness are needed.
Critical Psychology; Higher Education; Consciousness; University Reform; ProUni