The guiding function of the university and factors intervening in academic performance in higher education in Amazonas (Brazil)

Abstract

This text deals with the expansion of higher education and the need to expand measures appropriate to the new paradigms, given their implications for the admission and retention of students who did not have access to this level of education. The guiding function of the university and its actions to address specific issues were evaluated, in the promotion of inclusion mechanisms in view of the unfavorable conditions of students in the social and economic sphere. To achieve the proposed objective, we used empirical data from research carried out at the laboratory of psychopedagogical, educational, historical, cultural and social assessment of the amazon - LAPESAM, in reports from the institutional program of scientific initiation scholarships - PIBIC and a master's dissertation (GALDINO, 2013) and in authors who support the theme. It was possible to understand in summary that the guiding function of the university in its general aspects is institutionalized, these actions are received by students from professors, course coordinators, and department heads. The information that can be inferred from the provision of these actions is important, as it shows the intervening factors that give rise to them and assume a relevant role in academic life.