A experiência da mobilidade acadêmica internacional na perspectiva de quatro estudantes de uma universidade comunitária do Sul do Brasil

• Ano de defesa: 2018
• Autor(a) principal: Silveira, Viviane de Brum da
• Orientador(a): Taschetto, Leonidas Roberto
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade La Salle
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação (PPGEdu)
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: Educação; Mobilidade acadêmica internacional; Intercâmbio acadêmico; Experiência; Teoria fundamentada nos dados
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/11690/1038

This research has as focus the variables of the international life academy from the perspective of four young undergraduate students from a community university in southern Brazil. The intended objectives result from problematizations that assume the form of the following questions: Which reasons took students to study abroad? How do students signify an academic mobility experience during their performance? How is the academic experience significant after the return of the study trip? It is a question of a qualitative research, aiming to approach the experience of academic mobility from the intersubjective dimension, in order to understand how the students mean this experience, considering the temporal dimension of before, during and after the study trip. In methodological terms, for the collection of data, we used the semi-structured interview technique. To analyze the data, we used Grounded-Theory's theoreticalmethodological framework. From the data, emerged three categories: Intrinsic motivations in the desire to live abroad; Adaptations in the process of insertion in foreign contexts; Perceptions of before-after in the experience of mobility. Of the first category emerged four subcategories: Desire to live and to know different cultures and to have new experiences; Expectations, difficulties, aims, fears and stress when faced with the news of approval; Family and close support; Decisions, concessions and intuitions in the departure to the destination. Of the second category emerged three sub-categories: Feeling scared and stressed in the first moments after arrival; Positive reception; Adapting and opening up to new experiences and personal, interpersonal and cultural realities. The experience, understood in this study as the process of before, during and after the journey, is marked by sensitive issues involving determination and dream, fears and loneliness. Throughout the process, it was possible to highlight the relevance that interpersonal relationships play in overcoming difficult moments experienced during the exchange, as well as the analysis of the statements of the research interlocutors gave us directions on the ways in which Brazilian exchange students organize themselves in the face of the difficulties lived in the context outside. In the multifaceted sensations, feelings, desires and also pragmatic movements were, actually, the beginning of the experience of mobility. The exchange students in this study explored the ways in which they meant the process and the investment they had to make, referring to physical, individual and contextual psychic aspects. The illusions fed previously received from the reality an ambiguous answer if considered that one was expected. It may be that, in the case of illusions, they serve precisely to be, at one time or another, dissolved, opening space to others, and so on.