Da periferia à universidade: sucesso escolar e qualidade de vida de jovens de classe popular

Abstract

This article examines the life changes of young university students through educational success. We notice the life path of some young students until the achievement of higher education in Centro Acadêmico de Vitória de Santo Antão [College Center in Vitória de Santo Antão city, Pernambuco, Brazil], from the lahirean perspective by sociology on an individual scale. This higher educational center was placed during the project of implementation of new federal universities in the Northeast of Brazil, between the years 2010 to 2014, during the Lula and Dilma Rousseff governments. We often notice in popular classes the so-called choice of possible , which arises when many individuals from inner cities in Brazil do not have the conditions to be undergraduated because of the attendance of universities only in big cities - many of these students without even feeding the dream of higher education. After the implementation of public and free-of-charge universities in inner cities, we observe a change in the university students profile of these cities because of the facilities in the access to higher education. The aim of this article was to analyze the extent to which school knowledge has reverted to changes in the quality of life of these individuals, becoming what is called educational success, which reveals the positive impact of the internalization process.