Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T14:36:46Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 AndrezaSS_DISSERT.pdf: 1326270 bytes, checksum: 3d29c92ad119b2e0176bd35d2e6cf0d8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-07-05 / The number of disabled students, who have entered the university, in Brazil, since the beginning of this century, is undergoing a speed growth. It is a change that follows a global trend that spreads an inclusive education policy and that has had a profound impact on Brazil, with import results in field researches. This subject has been highlighted due to the significant amount of disabled students enrolled in college institutions (IES), although it is still modest the number of studies about it, especially in what matters the assistance given to the candidates to a university entrance examination. The aim of this paper is to investigate how effectively Natal s IES apply the rules established in Brazilian law concerning disabled students, especially MEC/GM Circular Warning n. 277/96, in what respects the conditions given to disabled students preparing to enter a college. The investigation followed a qualitative methodological approach with support on an exploratory study. The data recollection employed questionnaire, semi-structured interview and documental analyses, and the data have been organized and assessed following Minayo s (1996) stages. What concerns the results, it was observed that none of the ten colleges inquired confirmed to possess places exclusively to disabled candidates; six of them, however, offer Special Examining Board in the selection process of disabled candidates. Among eighteen college bills, only two of them offered specific information related to services and resources offered by IES to the candidates who ask for especial assistance concerning examination. During the interviews, four managers avowed the preoccupation in offering an equal selection process, but two of them proved not dominate the subject. In conclusion, the investigated institutions managers do not still seem to respect the rule that guarantees to disabled candidates equal conditions during all the process of the university entrance examination. With this work, we hope do help changing this focus and contribute to new studies on disabled persons studying for a degree / O n?mero de pessoas com defici?ncia que tem ingressado no Ensino Superior, no Brasil, aumentou significativamente no in?cio do s?culo XXI. Essa mudan?a resulta das discuss?es em torno da implanta??o da pol?tica de educa??o inclusiva no contexto internacional, inclusive em nosso pa?s, refletindo no campo da pesquisa. A tem?tica come?a a se destacar impulsionada pelo aumento do n?mero de matr?culas de estudantes com defici?ncia nas Institui??es de Ensino Superior (IES). No entanto, a quantidade de estudos ainda ? escassa, principalmente no que se refere ao atendimento oferecido pelos candidatos com defici?ncia no vestibular das IES. Nesse sentido, o objetivo deste trabalho foi investigar em que medida as IES da cidade do Natal-RN est?o seguindo as recomenda??es contidas na legisla??o brasileira, especificamente a do Aviso Circular N? 277/96-MEC/GM, no que tange ?s condi??es oferecidas aos estudantes com defici?ncia para o processo seletivo vestibular. A investiga??o caracteriza-se por uma abordagem metodol?gica qualitativa do tipo Estudo Explorat?rio. A constru??o dos dados se deu atrav?s da aplica??o de question?rio, entrevista semiestruturada e an?lise documental, sendo os dados coletados organizados e interpretados segundo as etapas indicadas por Minayo (1998). Em rela??o aos resultados, constatou-se que das dez institui??es de ensino superior que devolveram o question?rio, nenhuma delas possu?a reserva de vagas para candidatos com defici?ncia e, apenas seis afirmaram oferecer Banca Especial no processo seletivo para ingresso na gradua??o. Dos dezoito editais analisados, somente dois apresentavam informa??es claras aos candidatos sobre os servi?os e recursos oferecidos pela IES a quem solicita atendimento especial para realiza??o das provas. Dos quatro gestores que participaram da entrevista semiestruturada, constatou-se que todos revelaram preocupa??o em oferecer um processo seletivo igualit?rio, mas parte deles n?o demonstrou possuir muito conhecimento acerca da legisla??o espec?fica. Conclui-se que h? necessidade de os gestores das institui??es investigadas cumprirem com a legisla??o em vigor assegurando aos candidatos com defici?ncia o direito de concorrer no processo seletivo vestibular, em igualdade de oportunidades, em todas as etapas, desde a inscri??o at? a corre??o final das provas. Espera-se, com esta investiga??o, tamb?m contribuir para o avan?o das discuss?es e novos estudos em torno do acesso das pessoas com defici?ncia ao ensino superior

In the mid-1980’s institutions of higher learning were coerced by the South African government to admit students from all races. As a result, these institutions were confronted with the need to identify preparedness for higher learning, especially amongst the ex-Department of Education and Training (DET) learners. Grade 12 results were not a sufficient predictor for ex-DET learners, and a review of current admission criteria became a necessity. This study aims to develop a suitable science entry-level test to be used as a component of an existing test battery. The test battery is used as an admission tool by the Port Elizabeth Technikon to further assess first year applicants who do not meet the normal entrance requirements for a science course. The only requirement for further assessment being Grade 12 physical science. The science entry-level test consists of a list of validated science skills and knowledge to be used to assess the skills and knowledge mastered at the time of test taking. On the basis of test scores, an assessment is made regarding the applicant’s preparedness for higher learning. This study holds the view that preparedness in students for higher learning in science can be measured by means of valid science competencies. In addition, knowledge of the level of preparedness of the applicant enables further educational support and guidance to be provided where necessary. Research which measures manifest academic ability rather than potential to learn is favoured since it is believed that the former generates psychometric evidence of that which was already mastered academically whilst the latter determines whether the student will be able to achieve under ideal conditions. The content covered by the proposed Science Competency Test was sanctioned by technikon lecturers of first year physics and chemistry courses. The content was taken from the examinable section of the Grade 11 and 12 physical science syllabi. This content is the most acceptable and fair knowledge-base a prospective science student can be expected to have mastered at school. The content was limited to those skills and knowledge believed by the lecturers to contribute to academic success in the first year. Items that tested this content were compiled and pilot tests were administered to Grade 12 physical science learners at various disadvantaged schools. The Science Competency Test was compiled from the pool of trial items after the performance of the items was statistically determined. This final Science Competency Test was completed by a sample of 179 first-time first year science students. The findings of the study were inconclusive as the Science Competency Test showed a moderate predictive ability for only one section of the sample. It further showed that the weighted matric score, WMS was not a significant predictor of future academic performance of the sample either. A discrepancy in performance amongst learners of different home languages and educational backgrounds was also noted.

M. A. / The inequalities regarding opportunities for the various cultural groups in South Africa to obtain access to tertiary education, could largely be attributed to the insufficient schooling that was available to black scholars until now. A new political dispensation and the coupled drastic changes to the educational system, including tertiary institutions, demands that the admission policies regulating the access tot tertiary education be reviewed and changed to provide for the educationally disadvantaged student. The Rand Afrikaans University created an alternative admission policy to accommodate educationally disadvantaged students and or students who do not qualify in terms of the usual admission criteria. Apart from certain minimum requirements, the policy requires that the learning and developmental potential of the prospective students be established. Language proficiency, intelligence, learning potential and other non-cognitive components are elements of the alternative evaluation. RAU found that the admission policy creates the necessity to research the predictive validity of the cognitive part of the test battery, with regard to the criterium academic performance. This research project attempted to assess whether the psychometric test battery which the University uses, within the framework of an academic support programme called Project 100, can be viewed as valid in predicting future academic performance of these students. The battery includes the measurement of intelligence by means of the LSAT; learning potential as assessed by the APIL; as well as language proficiency that is measured by using the Leesbegripstoets and the Reading Comprehension Test. M-score was also included into the statistical procedures, as to see whether the predictive validity of this factor is really as low as it is generally assumed. The statistical procedures that were employed to establish the predictive validity, included correlation coefficients for determining the validity of the individual components. Multivariate regression analysis was performed to determine the predictive validity of the components of the battery in conjunction with each other. Using the technique of discriminant analysis, the success of grouping through the test battery was assessed - looking at the proportion of the cases correctly classified into the categories pass, fail, and no admission to exam; and the categories successful and unsuccessful. The individual correlation coefficients revealed that each component correlated significantly with academic performance. M-score also correlated with academic performance, but this coefficient was the lowest of all the factors. The component which correlated highest with academic performance, was language proficiency. The GSAT and the APIL correlated to the same extent with performance, and the relationship between the two instruments was also relatively high. This implies that these two instruments probably measures the same construct. The results from the regression analysis proved M-score, APIL and the GSAT in combination to explain more of the variance in academic performance than any of these factors individually. M-score seems to explain other aspects of performance than intelligence and learning potential, and should for this reason be reckoned with when assessing a prospective student's potential success. The discriminant analysis showed that the tests successfully distinguish between the categories successful and unsuccessful, but not between the three categories pass, fail and no admission to exam. The factors should however never be seen in isolation. No single factor can predict academic performance to the full. The person should be seen as a whole, and the influence of non-cognitive factors should always be kept in mind.

Sweden is moving from the fossil-atomic age, making ready for photovoltaics (PV) to assume a noteworthy part in a future formed by renewable power production. Sweden is a global leader in renewable energy, environment technology, and Clean-tech. The country fully embraces green technologies and this area has a major business potential. The goal is to reach a 50 percent share of renewable energy by 2020. Photovoltaic (PV) system is one of the main sources of renewable energy sources, the rate of installed PV increased in Sweden. During 2014 36.2 MWp installed, which is almost double installed power 19.1 MWp during 2013. During 2013 and 2014 1.1 MWp sold to the electrical grid and 9.5 MWp of the off-grid system been sold. It was and will be always a problem to start a business or to enter a new market or technology, struggle to understand the market, solve the problems, and increase the sales to achieve the success. Since many companies face difficulties, selling products and getting more projects, for that a research document made to investigate more and find solutions. The purpose of this research to identify solar market entrance obstacles and barriers, and how can new entrants makes solar market entrance. Investigate the statues que of today market and the predict future for solar market in Sweden. Data collection sequence started with identifying customer needs, then review the literature, and finally interview Swedish solar firms. The interviewed firms were five firms operating in Southern of Sweden. The information outcome from the process identifies market obstacles and barriers, providing ideas about the today market situation, predicting the market future, and setting a plan for market entrance for a new entrant. The research neglected the firm size, concentrating on market obstacles and barriers.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-07-27T13:53:50Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Cristiano Alexandre dos Santos.pdf: 830393 bytes, checksum: a3fadf8659ed0c14ff808ee27c386ba8 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2004-09-22 / The present work has as theme the professional identity of the college entrance exam preparatory course teacher. Its main goal is to distinguish this teacher who teaches classes in a informal type of school and also has brought great benefits to those seeking to attend higher education. The theme s social relevance lies in the fact that, even though acting in an informal teaching setting, this teacher is someone who interacts with hundreds of high school graduate students who seek, in these prep courses, for help to be successful in the college entrance exams conducted by Higher Education Institutions. The understanding of how the prep course teacher identity n built on, using the relationships with students, school management and peers as reference, becomes the problem of this investigation which has demanded the establishment of the following goals: to study the teacher s scope and limitations as an education professional; to understand the development of the Brazilian high school system in its relation to higher education and the current context of entering this level of education and to know the prep course teacher s features. To study the identity, the research used the contributions of Berger and Luckmann (1978), Hall (1982), Mendonça (1994), Silva (2000) and Woodward (2000). To investigate the education professional s identity, the most important references were the researches of Enguita (1991), Nóvoa (1991), Carrolo (1997), Brzezinski (2002), Gómez (2000) and Tardif (2002). In order to reconstitute the history of the high school system s objectives and the entering mechanisms method to higher education, it was used mainly the studies of Chagas (1984), Strehl and Fantin (1994), Cury (2002), Kuenzer (2002) and Abramovai e Castro (2003). The dialectical materialism method was adopted in the course of this investigation. From the object approach standpoint, the present research is qualitative. A bibliographical research was conducted and a case study wad developed. The categories in which this work was based on were: identity and education professional s identity. As data collecting procedures, this work has prepared and used prestructured interviews with students, teachers and also with the principal of Garra Prep School, chosen as sample. Through the theoretical references and group interviews, it is possible to conclude that this Prep School is one of the several spaces in which professional identities are built. The students and teacher s movement searching for adequate training and, therefore, professionalization. The prep school teacher has been facing a proletarianization process which is evidenced by the mechanism of this functions; however, he has his own identity and he is an education professional. / O presente trabalho tem como tema a identidade profissional do professor de Cursinho . O objetivo geral é distinguir esse professor que ministra aulas em um tipo de escola não-formal e que tem contribuído com muitos na conquista de uma vaga no Ensino Superior. A relevância social do tema encontra-se no fato de que, mesmo atuando no ensino não-formal, esse professor é alguém que interage com centenas de alunos egressos do Ensino Médio e que buscam nos colégios preparatórios para o vestibular um auxílio para conseguir êxito nos processos seletivos realizados pelas Instituições de Ensino Superior. Compreender como a identidade do professor de Cursinho é constituída, tendo como referência as relações estabelecidas com alunos, direção e seus pares, nesse espaço muito próprio, consistiu no problema dessa investigação que exigiu o traçado dos seguintes objetivos: estudar o alcance e as limitações do uso do conceito identidade; analisar a formação e a profissionalização do professor como profissional da educação; compreender o desenvolvimento do Ensino Médio brasileiro em sua relação com o Ensino Superior e o atual contexto do acesso a esse nível de ensino; conhecer as características do professor de Cursinho. Para o estudo da identidade foram utilizadas como referenciais teóricos, as contribuições de Berger e Luckmann (1978), Hall (1982), Mendonça (1994), Silva (2000) e Woodward (2000). Para o estudo da identidade do profissional da educação os referenciais mais importantes foram as pesquisas de Enguita (1991), Nóvoa (1995), Carrolo (1997), Brzezinski (2002), Gómez (2000) e Tardif (2002). Para fins de reconstituição da história dos objetivos do Ensino Médio e dos mecanismos de acesso ao Ensino Superior utilizaram-se principalmente dos estudos de Chagas (1984), Strehl e Fantin (1994), Cury (2002), Kuenzer (2002) e Abramovai e Castro (2003). Adotou-se como trajetória de investigação o método do materialismo dialético. Do ponto de vista da forma de abordagem do objeto, a pesquisa é qualitativa. Realizou-se uma pesquisa bibliográfica e desenvolveu-se o estudo de caso. As categorias norteadoras deste trabalho foram: identidade e identidade do profissional da educação. Como procedimentos de coleta de dados foram elaborados e utilizados roteiros pré-estruturados de entrevistas para alunos, professores e também para o gestor do Cursinho Garra escolhido como amostra. Diante do referencial teórico e das entrevistas coletivas, é possível concluir que o Cursinho constitui um dos múltiplos espaços nos quais são construídas as identidades profissionais. Os depoimentos dos alunos e dos professores permitiram compreender que, ao atender às especificidades de um colégio preparatório para o vestibular, os docentes assumem uma identidade distinta. Também foi possível concluir que existe um movimento desses docentes na busca da formação adequada, portanto, da profissionalização. O professor de Cursinho vem passando por um processo de proletarização, evidenciado pela mecanização de suas funções, todavia possui uma identidade própria e é um profissional da educação.

The research evaluated the remodeled lobby and reception office of the Linn- Benton Housing Authority, Albany, Oregon. Programming goals identified five needs: protect client privacy, provide for orderly queuing at the reception counter, decrease contact time between clients and staff, and improve reception office for attention focused tasks and for space intensive tasks. These five goals formed the basis of a post-occupancy evaluation (POE) of the lobby and reception office. Concepts from cognitive theory and culture and methods from ethnography and environment-behavior research were used to study public visitors and staff in these areas. Data were analyzed according to cognitive cultural categories then compared to criteria specified for building performance. The performance was measured and evaluated for concordance between the criteria and performance. Ethnographic methods provided insights into the knowledge, beliefs, and values of the users of the study area. This information served as a measure of building performance reflecting cultural meanings attributed to the study area; it provided information about how visitors and staff used these meanings to mediate their experiences within the building. Data was compared to data from the programming study and from an earlier series of exit interviews with public users after the remodeling was completed. Information from the programming phase was used to develop the criteria for building performance. Exit interviews were based on open-ended questions about activities, impressions, and feelings about the housing authority lobby. This contributed to the measures of performance. Data collected for this research was based on ethnographic interviews, semi-structured interviews, ethnographic observations, and behavior maps. These four methods allowed triangulation of data to ensure adequate and reliable coverage of the complexity and variety of behaviors and activities within the study area. This information provided the major data for evaluating building performance. The evaluations of the five programming goals indicated generally positive results for privacy, queuing, contact with staff, and space intensive tasks. There was a negative evaluation for attention focused tasks. Cultural meanings attributed to the remodel design include an improved sense of self-worth, sense of confidence and trust identified as professionalism, improved staff security, and improved valuation of privacy. / Graduation date: 2004 / p.58 missing from both paper copies. Author unavailable to supply.

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Chegar ao ensino superior ainda é uma realidade distante para muitas pessoas em nosso país. No Rio Grande do Sul, uma das unidades da federação que apresenta os melhores indicadores de acesso a este nível de ensino, pouco mais de 14% dos jovens entre 18 e 24 anos chega atualmente à universidade e entre esses um número bem menor consegue uma vaga na universidade pública. Diante dessa realidade, algumas experiências de preparação ao Ensino Superior com vistas aos segmentos historicamente excluídos de sua oferta surgem no cenário educacional. Os chamados cursos pré-vestibulares populares (PVPs) são uma realidade ainda pouco estudada, por mais que intensamente vivida por um considerável número de pessoas em nossa cidade. Este estudo tem como objetivo mapear os PVPs que atuam em Porto Alegre e que estiveram em atividade durante o ano de 2006. Por meio de entrevistas semi-estruturadas com os participantes (organizadores, professores e alunos) dos cursos e da análise dos projetos políticos-pedagógicos e do plano de gestão da experiência-piloto do Cursinho Municipal, busco entender a forma como ocorre a administração e a organização pedagógica dessas experiências alternativas de preparação ao vestibular. O foco desta pesquisa é a compreensão dessas iniciativas na fronteira entre o público e o privado, ou seja, ver em que medida os PVPs inserem-se (ou não) na lógica atual de movimentos da sociedade civil e/ou terceiro setor. Dessa forma, este trabalho situa os PVPs historicamente, analisando o movimento de reorganização do capital a partir da globalização de cunho neoliberal e da redefinição dos espaços públicos e privados que a reforma imposta ao aparato estatal trouxe a partir da década de 1990 ao Brasil. Assim, notamos que, paralelamente ao trabalho de revisão de conteúdos para o vestibular, os PVPs buscam fomentar uma postura crítica em seus alunos a partir de pressupostos de educação popular, procurando muito mais do que colocar pobres e negros na universidade, principalmente na pública, tensionar o sistema de ensino do país, por meio da democratização do acesso à universidade. Por isso, em sua maioria, ocupam, no seio da sociedade civil, um lugar muito mais próximo dos movimentos sociais do que das fundações, associações e ONGs de caráter assistencialista que se colocam a serviço da manutenção dos status quo. / Reaching graduation is still a distant reality to many people in our country. One state that presents one of the best indicators to access graduation is Rio Grande do Sul. In this state, a few more than 14% of eighteen to twenty-four years old youths reach the university. Besides, a minority of these youths gets a vacancy in a public university. In the presence of this reality, some experiences of preparation to graduation come up in the educational scenery, especially for the ones who have historically been excluded. Even being intensively lived by a remarkable number of people in our city, the pre-entrance exam courses (PVPs) are not so studied yet. This study aims to map PVPs that have been acting and those that were acting during 2006 in Porto Alegre. Through semi-structural interviews with participants (organizers, teachers, and students) of the courses and through policy-pedagogical project and the pilot management plan of municipal course analyses, this work tries to understand the way in which the pedagogical administration and organization of these alternative experiences to preparation to entrance exam occurs. The focus of this research is to comprehend these initiatives in the border between public and private, that is, to see how PVPs take place (or do not) in the actual movement of the civil society and/or third sector. Thus, this work situates PVPs in a historical way, analyzing the reorganization movement of capital form the neoliberal globalization and the public and private spaces redefinition that the reformation imposed to the state device brought since 1990’s to Brazil. Therefore, it is possible to notice that together the review contents work to the entrance exam the PVPs, that are based on popular education proposes, try to encourage their students to have a critic attitude. Moreover, PVPs try to not only insert poors and blacks at university, mainly in a public one, but tensing the country teaching system. This way, most of them are engage in our civil society and they occupy a closer status of social movements than foundations, associations, and non-government organizations, which have an assistance characteristic in order to keep the status quo.

Chegar ao ensino superior ainda é uma realidade distante para muitas pessoas em nosso país. No Rio Grande do Sul, uma das unidades da federação que apresenta os melhores indicadores de acesso a este nível de ensino, pouco mais de 14% dos jovens entre 18 e 24 anos chega atualmente à universidade e entre esses um número bem menor consegue uma vaga na universidade pública. Diante dessa realidade, algumas experiências de preparação ao Ensino Superior com vistas aos segmentos historicamente excluídos de sua oferta surgem no cenário educacional. Os chamados cursos pré-vestibulares populares (PVPs) são uma realidade ainda pouco estudada, por mais que intensamente vivida por um considerável número de pessoas em nossa cidade. Este estudo tem como objetivo mapear os PVPs que atuam em Porto Alegre e que estiveram em atividade durante o ano de 2006. Por meio de entrevistas semi-estruturadas com os participantes (organizadores, professores e alunos) dos cursos e da análise dos projetos políticos-pedagógicos e do plano de gestão da experiência-piloto do Cursinho Municipal, busco entender a forma como ocorre a administração e a organização pedagógica dessas experiências alternativas de preparação ao vestibular. O foco desta pesquisa é a compreensão dessas iniciativas na fronteira entre o público e o privado, ou seja, ver em que medida os PVPs inserem-se (ou não) na lógica atual de movimentos da sociedade civil e/ou terceiro setor. Dessa forma, este trabalho situa os PVPs historicamente, analisando o movimento de reorganização do capital a partir da globalização de cunho neoliberal e da redefinição dos espaços públicos e privados que a reforma imposta ao aparato estatal trouxe a partir da década de 1990 ao Brasil. Assim, notamos que, paralelamente ao trabalho de revisão de conteúdos para o vestibular, os PVPs buscam fomentar uma postura crítica em seus alunos a partir de pressupostos de educação popular, procurando muito mais do que colocar pobres e negros na universidade, principalmente na pública, tensionar o sistema de ensino do país, por meio da democratização do acesso à universidade. Por isso, em sua maioria, ocupam, no seio da sociedade civil, um lugar muito mais próximo dos movimentos sociais do que das fundações, associações e ONGs de caráter assistencialista que se colocam a serviço da manutenção dos status quo. / Reaching graduation is still a distant reality to many people in our country. One state that presents one of the best indicators to access graduation is Rio Grande do Sul. In this state, a few more than 14% of eighteen to twenty-four years old youths reach the university. Besides, a minority of these youths gets a vacancy in a public university. In the presence of this reality, some experiences of preparation to graduation come up in the educational scenery, especially for the ones who have historically been excluded. Even being intensively lived by a remarkable number of people in our city, the pre-entrance exam courses (PVPs) are not so studied yet. This study aims to map PVPs that have been acting and those that were acting during 2006 in Porto Alegre. Through semi-structural interviews with participants (organizers, teachers, and students) of the courses and through policy-pedagogical project and the pilot management plan of municipal course analyses, this work tries to understand the way in which the pedagogical administration and organization of these alternative experiences to preparation to entrance exam occurs. The focus of this research is to comprehend these initiatives in the border between public and private, that is, to see how PVPs take place (or do not) in the actual movement of the civil society and/or third sector. Thus, this work situates PVPs in a historical way, analyzing the reorganization movement of capital form the neoliberal globalization and the public and private spaces redefinition that the reformation imposed to the state device brought since 1990’s to Brazil. Therefore, it is possible to notice that together the review contents work to the entrance exam the PVPs, that are based on popular education proposes, try to encourage their students to have a critic attitude. Moreover, PVPs try to not only insert poors and blacks at university, mainly in a public one, but tensing the country teaching system. This way, most of them are engage in our civil society and they occupy a closer status of social movements than foundations, associations, and non-government organizations, which have an assistance characteristic in order to keep the status quo.

Chegar ao ensino superior ainda é uma realidade distante para muitas pessoas em nosso país. No Rio Grande do Sul, uma das unidades da federação que apresenta os melhores indicadores de acesso a este nível de ensino, pouco mais de 14% dos jovens entre 18 e 24 anos chega atualmente à universidade e entre esses um número bem menor consegue uma vaga na universidade pública. Diante dessa realidade, algumas experiências de preparação ao Ensino Superior com vistas aos segmentos historicamente excluídos de sua oferta surgem no cenário educacional. Os chamados cursos pré-vestibulares populares (PVPs) são uma realidade ainda pouco estudada, por mais que intensamente vivida por um considerável número de pessoas em nossa cidade. Este estudo tem como objetivo mapear os PVPs que atuam em Porto Alegre e que estiveram em atividade durante o ano de 2006. Por meio de entrevistas semi-estruturadas com os participantes (organizadores, professores e alunos) dos cursos e da análise dos projetos políticos-pedagógicos e do plano de gestão da experiência-piloto do Cursinho Municipal, busco entender a forma como ocorre a administração e a organização pedagógica dessas experiências alternativas de preparação ao vestibular. O foco desta pesquisa é a compreensão dessas iniciativas na fronteira entre o público e o privado, ou seja, ver em que medida os PVPs inserem-se (ou não) na lógica atual de movimentos da sociedade civil e/ou terceiro setor. Dessa forma, este trabalho situa os PVPs historicamente, analisando o movimento de reorganização do capital a partir da globalização de cunho neoliberal e da redefinição dos espaços públicos e privados que a reforma imposta ao aparato estatal trouxe a partir da década de 1990 ao Brasil. Assim, notamos que, paralelamente ao trabalho de revisão de conteúdos para o vestibular, os PVPs buscam fomentar uma postura crítica em seus alunos a partir de pressupostos de educação popular, procurando muito mais do que colocar pobres e negros na universidade, principalmente na pública, tensionar o sistema de ensino do país, por meio da democratização do acesso à universidade. Por isso, em sua maioria, ocupam, no seio da sociedade civil, um lugar muito mais próximo dos movimentos sociais do que das fundações, associações e ONGs de caráter assistencialista que se colocam a serviço da manutenção dos status quo. / Reaching graduation is still a distant reality to many people in our country. One state that presents one of the best indicators to access graduation is Rio Grande do Sul. In this state, a few more than 14% of eighteen to twenty-four years old youths reach the university. Besides, a minority of these youths gets a vacancy in a public university. In the presence of this reality, some experiences of preparation to graduation come up in the educational scenery, especially for the ones who have historically been excluded. Even being intensively lived by a remarkable number of people in our city, the pre-entrance exam courses (PVPs) are not so studied yet. This study aims to map PVPs that have been acting and those that were acting during 2006 in Porto Alegre. Through semi-structural interviews with participants (organizers, teachers, and students) of the courses and through policy-pedagogical project and the pilot management plan of municipal course analyses, this work tries to understand the way in which the pedagogical administration and organization of these alternative experiences to preparation to entrance exam occurs. The focus of this research is to comprehend these initiatives in the border between public and private, that is, to see how PVPs take place (or do not) in the actual movement of the civil society and/or third sector. Thus, this work situates PVPs in a historical way, analyzing the reorganization movement of capital form the neoliberal globalization and the public and private spaces redefinition that the reformation imposed to the state device brought since 1990’s to Brazil. Therefore, it is possible to notice that together the review contents work to the entrance exam the PVPs, that are based on popular education proposes, try to encourage their students to have a critic attitude. Moreover, PVPs try to not only insert poors and blacks at university, mainly in a public one, but tensing the country teaching system. This way, most of them are engage in our civil society and they occupy a closer status of social movements than foundations, associations, and non-government organizations, which have an assistance characteristic in order to keep the status quo.