Práticas informacionais e Competência Crítica em Informação de estudantes quilombolas da Universidade Federal do Pará

Abstract

This research aims to analyze, within a historical, social and cultural context, the Informational Practices of quilombola students at the Federal University of Pará, in order to contribute to the elaboration of affirmative actions, with the perspective of minimizing the problem of access to information faced by these people. To reach the proposed objective, this research was divided in three stages, the first presents a theoretical systematization, product of the bibliographical research developed with reflections about the theoretical approaches related to the User Studies. The Informational Practices and the Critical Competence in Information, after a brief historical exposition of the quilombolas in Brazil, their fight for education, the access to higher education aiming to understand the historical, cultural and social trajectory of them. The second stage: the development of the research is presented, including the documental research that made it possible to identify the quilombola students at the Federal University of Pará and to trace an overview about the presence of quilombola students enrolled in the different campuses, poles, centers, and courses that form the institution. In order to conclude the initial objective, it was verified the Informational Practices of quilombola students through the ethnographic research, specifically with the application of a questionnaire in Google forms and semi-structured interviews, configured as tools for data collection. For the analysis of this collected data, we elected the Critical Discourse Analysis. Finally, a triangulation between the results of the bibliographic research and the ethnographic interview was carried out. The results indicate that the informational practices developed by quilombola students both in the academic field and in the community, field are influenced by factors such as history, cultural, social, political and economic capital. In this way, Critical Information Competence is observed in the individual and collective actions produced in the students' daily lives, showing that the dialogues between Informational Practices and Critical Information Competence contribute to the generation of fundamental knowledge on the issues of social and cultural differences within the researched context.