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DATE: 27/06/2025
TIME: 13:00
LOCAL: webconferência
TITLE:
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KEY WORDS:
Contemporary higher education; Student life; University in Brazil; University in France; academic socialisation
PAGES: 266
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Educação
SUMMARY:
In a world where almost half of all young people go through Higher Education (HE), where Artificial Intelligence is increasingly taking over the lives and work of millions of people, while at the same time there is hunger, misery and war, questioning HE, this increasingly mass training space, is not only necessary, but urgent. If we want social and human real development, with the collaboration of Higher Education Institutions (HEIs), it is essential to question them. In this sense, this work seeks to contribute to this discussion, since its main objective is to understand student perceptions of the University to discuss contemporary Higher Education (HE) from the inside, beyond the idealized image. The locus of the research is international, although not comparative, and took place in Brazil, at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), Natal campus, and in France, at the Université de Lorraine (UL), in Nancy. The research was carried out in the field of sociology of education, from the perspective of social phenomenology, with a qualitative and sociobiographical approach. As methodological strategies, in addition to bibliographical research, observations were made,
questionnaires were administered, and interviews were carried out. In total, 220 questionnaires were administered in the Pedagogy (UFRN - Campus Natal) and Education Sciences (UL - Nancy) courses. In Brazil, 110 students answered the questionnaire, corresponding to around 10% of the students enrolled on the Pedagogy course; in France, the 110 students corresponded to more than 50% of those enrolled
on the Education Sciences course. Based on the questionnaire data, which was analyzed using statistical software, an expected inequality was observed in the cultural capital of both groups, with the French having a higher level than the Brazilians. On the other hand, there was a more positive outlook towards the university environment among the Brazilians, who were more engaged and delighted with academic life. Of the
220 respondents, 10 students were selected for the interview stage, considering the criteria of gender proportionality (1), parents' schooling (2) and more positive or negative perception of ES (3). Five Brazilian and five French students were selected. The interviews, conducted by video call, the questionnaires and the observations revealed important questions and student positions, from which it was possible to draw up an
interpretative perspective and 4 categories to guide this interpretation, which help us to think about ES in contemporary times. We therefore propose the interpretation that the group of students surveyed, during their academic experience, thought of themselves as more than in search of a “professional being”, but rather, they experienced the search for a “social being”, a “developmental being” and a “being in search of itself”. Thus, HEIs were seen as strategic spaces for development, not just professional or social, but above all humans. Thus, this paper seeks to contribute to an understanding of HEIs as privileged spaces of coexistence, especially for students, for their professional, community and social journeys, for development, discovery and the production of meaning about the world and about themselves.
COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Externo à Instituição - SAEED PAIVANDI
Externa à Instituição - SONIA MARIA ROCHA SAMPAIO - UFBA
Presidente - 926826 - ADIR LUIZ FERREIRA
Externa à Instituição - ANDREZZA MARIA BATISTA DO NASCIMENTO TAVARES
Externa ao Programa - 3465197 - ELDA SILVA DO NASCIMENTO MELO - nullInterna - 4197701 - ERIKA DOS REIS GUSMAO ANDRADE
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