O Sistema de Seleção Unificada (SISU) na Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso – campus Cuiabá – e a relação com a democratização do acesso

Abstract

This dissertation, included in the debate on higher education policies, discusses the selection process for entry into the Federal Institution of Higher Education - IFES, focusing on the Federal University of Mato Grosso - UFMT (Cuiabá campus). Presents the general objective of the analysis of the implementation process and development of the Unified Selection System (SiSU) in UFMT relating to the democratization of access. The theoretical and methodological basis of the research is based on historical and dialectical materialism. For the composition of the research and information gathering was necessary to build a logical apprehension theoretical and documentary. Initially, seeks to understand the category democratization, from theoretical and document specific policies of higher education, as a result, comes to historical aspects related to the selection models for entry into higher education in Brazil, also highlights the main legal provisions, considering forms of selection; exposes the dynamics of SiSU, implementation and start at the national level (through the Ministry of Education - MEC), in UFMT to study SiSU, made up data analysis provided by the Academic System - SIGA reading Notices, resolutions and Certificate of Minutes of meetings of the Board of Education for Teaching, Research and Extension - CONSEPE. The SiSU established by Normative Ruling No. 2, January 2010, is a computerized system designed and managed by MEC for the purpose of enabling the democratization of opportunity for competition, student mobility and restructuring high school curriculum. The research result shows that it is a selection process as many historically constructed in the sphere of the admission policies of Brazilian higher education. The logic introduced around this Selection System expresses an ideological current that is perpetuated in capitalist society, which creates a reality for the citizens of equality, obscuring the underlying dispute and the competition model. The accession of the UFMT SiSU shows that the new model has not been discussed in academia, resulting in poor acceptance of the format, the first year of use. Already in later years, 2011 and 2012, there is an accommodation and accept the natural selection model. The UFMT was not clear what challenges emerge in this process, something that is evident in the analysis of OTC and dynamics of the institution's website, that during the initial three years suffered operational changes. Conclusively, the analysis shows SiSU a dynamic selection, which would be consolidated in Brazilian universities, with a new name and discourse of democratization, but that has no change in its wake with the logic of social selectivity as well as its characteristic meritocratic selection.