Banca de DEFESA: JENNIFER JULIANA BARRETO BEZERRA COSTA

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STUDENT : JENNIFER JULIANA BARRETO BEZERRA COSTA
DATE: 10/10/2024
TIME: 14:30
LOCAL: platarforma de Webconferência
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KEY WORDS:

COVID-19 pandemic; Student life; Higher education; Academic socialization.

PAGES: 222
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Educação
SUMMARY:

The aim of this study was to investigate how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted on the lives of undergraduate and graduate students at the Federal University of Pernambuco. Based on conditions of accessibility, the convenience of the researcher and relevance to the research objectives, we chose six courses: Biological Sciences, Social Sciences, Geology, Physical Education, Pedagogy (licentiate) and Music (licentiate). For the interviewees, we used two selection criteria: having started the course before the suspension of face-to-face activities at the University due to the COVID-19 pandemic and being in the final periods of the course. We selected six interviewees, one from each course, to analyze in more detail, the student life impacted by the pandemic. Based on the analysis of the interviews, we propose four dimensions of changes caused by the pandemic: 1) how the pandemic has changed relationships between students; 2) how students have adapted to the pandemic; 3) what have been the students' strategies for staying; 4) what are the impacts of the pandemic on other aspects of student life. The changes in relationships between students, friends and colleagues have been intense, causing friendships to break down. We have defined types of friendship, with the pandemic affecting the first two forms the most: the friendship of going out (“rolé”), the relationships that happen with occasional outings to parties, bars and, generally, these friendships do not go beyond these spaces; local friendship, which are those friendship relationships restricted to specific environments and spaces, such as the University, the church; and, finally, friendship “for life”, the friendships with which students make up their most intimate socio-affective circle, in which there is more companionship and more sense of pleasure and support. In the sense of existential flow, student life during the pandemic took place in three phases: the shock phase, at the initial moment of the pandemic, in which students were unsure about the consequences it could bring; the uncertainty phase, due to the need to adapt to Remote Learning, facing the difficulties that come with it; and the confidence phase, about the process of re-signifying the pandemic, when the student felt able to stay and complete the course. The pandemic also affected the social strategies used by students to stay and study: canonical strategies, recognized by traditional pedagogical practices, but less used, such as group study and collective work; profane strategies, more used, which were not recognized or recommended by normal procedures, such as leaving the class connected while doing other things; emotional strategies, which stood out, as ways of seeking personal wellbeing relying on the attitudes and affective responses of social support networks. The impacts of the pandemic have been immense on the affective, somatic and psychological lives of the students, with social isolation contributing to the weakening of personal relationships, and also to the emergence and worsening of illnesses related to the lack of social interaction (depression, burnout, sleep problems). The greatest difficulties reported by the students: the poor quality of the remote classes, causing problems with concentration and adaptation; the distancing in social life, both physical and emotional, from friendships, without being able to attend socializing spaces, which would eventually allow a satisfactory personal life and access to social capital and culture; and negative effects on affective, somatic and psychic life, causing numerous health problems.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Interno - 926826 - ADIR LUIZ FERREIRA
Externa à Instituição - ANDREZZA MARIA BATISTA DO NASCIMENTO TAVARES
Interna - 3465197 - ELDA SILVA DO NASCIMENTO MELO
Interna - 4197701 - ERIKA DOS REIS GUSMAO ANDRADE
Externo à Instituição - FERNANDO CÉZAR BEZERRA DE ANDRADE