Banca de DEFESA: JOSIELLE SOARES DA SILVA

Uma banca de DEFESA de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : JOSIELLE SOARES DA SILVA
DATE: 12/12/2019
TIME: 14:30
LOCAL: Auditório 01 do PPGEd - NEPSA II
TITLE:

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KEY WORDS:

Educational policy. College education. Internationalization. International cooperation.

PAGES: 241
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Educação
SUMMARY:

The present thesis goal to analyze the internationalization process of the University of African-Brazilian Lusophony Integration (UNILAB), created by Law No. 12.289, of July 20, 2010. It is assumed that with UNILAB Brazil seeks to project itself regionally and internationally as an important partner of the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP) based on a foreign policy of the government Luis Inácio Lula da Silva (2003-2010) that sought a greater international insertion of Brazil. Thus, it is understood that UNILAB is part of a strategy of developing political and economic relations, with the purpose of consolidating Brazil as an emerging power in the international scenario. To carry out this work, the chosen methodological approach was the historical-dialectical, committed to a critical and transformative view of reality. The technical procedures used were the literature review and semi-structured interviews with UNILAB managers, teachers, and students. The bibliographic review made it possible to understand the fundamental concepts that guide the analysis of the collected data, such as international cooperation in general and more particularly in Brazil and between him and the CPLP members, south-south cooperation and internationalization of higher education. The interviews were conducted with segments that are part of the university's institutional reality and had as axes: the organization and vision of internationalization by managers, teachers and students, the teaching performance in the context of an international institution and the academic experience of students Brazilians and foreigners. Regarding UNILAB's internationalization vision, from the point of view of managers and teachers, it is clear that there is no defined institutional understanding of internationalization, which leads to a very limited and reductionist view of the internationalization objectives and integration to which the institution proposes, which hinders relations in the academic field, but there is, among the teachers interviewed, clarity of the importance and contribution of the institution in the sharing of knowledge in the context of solidarity cooperation. The interviews with the students revealed difficulties in the integration between foreigners and Brazilians, because of language obstacles, as well as problems with racial discrimination. However, it is noteworthy that UNILAB represented an important initiative of the Brazilian government in the aspects of internationalization since from this project, it became clear that Brazil began to play a more active role in the international scenario as a regional geopolitical power, and promoted student mobility from African countries and in the context of internalization it functioned as a local development hub. Therefore, it can be said that, in the context of internationalization, UNILAB presents, in your documents and practices, an action aimed at solidarity cooperation, but relations with partner countries are not economically balanced, considering that Brazil is the main financier of internationalization within UNILAB, which characterizes Brazil's hegemony in the process.

BANKING MEMBERS:
Presidente - 2346663 - ALDA MARIA DUARTE ARAÚJO CASTRO
Externo à Instituição - ALLAN SOLANO SOUZA - UERN
Interno - 7347393 - ANTONIO CABRAL NETO
Externa à Instituição - EDINEIDE JEZINI MESQUITA ARAUJO - UFPB
Interno - 1458867 - GILMAR BARBOSA GUEDES
Interna - 347594 - MARIA GORETTI CABRAL BARBALHO
Externo à Instituição - VERA LÚCIA JACOB CHAVES - UFPA