SILVA, Eliane Cristina da    VALORE, Luciana Albanese. Education and social ascension: production of meanings in the discourses of graduates from a social program sponsored by private companies . Psicol. rev. (Belo Horizonte) []. 2019, 25, 1, pp.176-198. ISSN 1677-1168.  https://doi.org/10.5752/P.1678-9563.2019v25n1p176-198.

This research aimed to see the relations produced in the interconnection of education and social ascension in the discourse of former participants of a program about their academic and professional careers, as well as their experience in it. They were participants of a social program funded by the private sector, held in a state capital in the southern part of the country. They were low-income students from public schools with good academic performance. The investigation followed the Institutional Discourse Analysis method and took place in two steps: quantitative, through a questionnaire about educational and professional information; and qualitative, with the completion of semi-structured interviews with part of that public. Within the main results, based on indices such as education, employability and increasing access to resources, there was the participants’ socioeconomic improvement. As a conclusion, it was detected that changes based on the educational opportunities reached more individual and family context of the out-coming participants although meeting challenges for social transformation.

: Social programs; Professional career; Discourse.

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