Relações cotidianas no ambiente instituído da Ufpa: a experiência dos acadêmicos de países africanos

Abstract

This study 's purpose is the daily lived by students from African countries linked to the Student - Graduate Program Agreement , the PEC- G, conducting academic experience in a national HEI . The problem was oriented with a focus on the influence that the environment has instituted in everyday relationships established by students from African countries. The locus of the research was the Federal University of Pará - UFPA , in the House of Brazil - Africa Studies CBA . The objectives of the study were : a) raise the socioeconomic profile , academic and cultural development of students of African countries enrolled in the institution; b ) describe the interactions established by students of African countries within the HEI ; c ) verify that conditions are established relations between them and the environmental group established responsible to advise / assist in their academic experience.The methodology followed the qualitative approach and the theoretical framework focused on Everyday Theory of Agnes Heller (2008 ) , and contemporary studies on race relations and Higher Education. Coupled to these concepts , discourse analysis Bakhtin proposed by Brait (1997 ) ; Barros and Fiorin (1994); Bezerra (2008) Faraco (1996 ) was used involving three steps . The first involved the analysis of official and institutional documents in order to meet the speeches that materialize the guidelines about the daily life lived in public spaces for people with different aesthetic, cultural , social, etc. The Second refers to the on-site observation and journaling of everyday field experienced by the partners of this study . The third refers to the analysis of oral documents , made up of speeches by students from African countries about the daily academic . The results show that the daily lives of students of African countries is influenced by tensions and conflicts experienced in the set environment which in turn contributes to the distance to the institution that should assist in their academic experience at IES.