Reflexões sobre construção identitária e interculturalidade de intercambistas da UFLA

• Ano de defesa: 2025
• Autor(a) principal: Candido, Geovani Iruam Delfino
• Orientador(a): Romero, Tania Regina de Souza
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Lavras; Faculdade de Filosofia, Ciências Humanas, Educação e Letras - FAELCH
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Pós-graduação em Letras
• Departamento: Departamento
• País: brasil
• Palavras-chave em Português: Intercâmbio; Pesquisa narrativa; Identidade; Interculturalidade; Avaliatividade; Exchange; Narrative research; Identity; Interculturality; Appraisal
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: Letras
• Link de acesso: https://repositorio.ufla.br/handle/1/59984

The past decade has seen significant growth in the study of internationalization, but few studies offer a humanized perspective on university exchanges in Brazil (Stallivieri, 2017; Reis; Romero, 2021; Santos, 2021). Exchanges are linked to cultural and socioeconomic development as they reshape the social role of education in various social spheres (Landim,2022). This research aims to explore and reflect on exchange students' perceptions regarding identity construction and interculturality processes. To achieve this, the study addresses the following questions: (1) What challenges did the exchange students face?; (2) What were their most relevant learning experiences? and (3) How do they perceive their identity construction as a result of the exchange? The theoretical framework draws on Narrative Research (Pavlenko, 2007; Barcelos, 2020), Identity Construction (Hall, 2000; Block, 2007), and Interculturality (Weissmann, 2018; Byram; Gribkova; Starkey, 2002). The corpus, composed of transcribed interviews, was analyzed using Systemic Functional Linguistics – SFL (Fuzer;Cabral, 2014) and the Appraisal System (Martin; White, 2005), highlighting cultural values and identity transformations through interpretations grounded in each exchange student’s intercultural competencies. This study underscores the role of Narrative Research, Identity Construction, and Interculturality in addressing the hegemonic movements of globalization and contributes to both individual and collective goals linked to professional success by fostering the development of public and private policies. Therefore, the results indicate identity transformations regarding the acquisition of scientific knowledge, learning foreign languages, the expansion of personal and collective intercultural awareness, and academic benefits. These highlight the role of exchange programs in valuing public policies and global social practices, as well as in transforming knowledge within non-traditional linguistic studies, enabling greater recognition of teaching proposals, academic mobility, curriculum, and qualitative research in the fields of interculturality and identity construction through internationalization.