Experiências de internacionalização e desenvolvimento humano na educação superior

Abstract

This master‟s dissertation aims to study the human development of students and its general objective is to analyze how internationalization experiences imply the human development of undergraduate students of UTFPR, Francisco Beltrão Campus, the locus of the research. In order to analyze human development, from the international experience of students, through the Science Without Borders Program, a historical and social perspective was necessary to understand the history of the university and the production of scientific knowledge and the rationalities that permeate them, since the Middle Ages to Contemporaneity. For this discussion, it was mainly used the concepts of Boaventura de Sousa Santos (1988, 1989, 2004, 2007) and Edgar Morin (1998; 2011); and Charle and Verger (1996), Hélgio Trindade (1999) and Elisabete Monteiro de Aguiar Pereira (2009). Based on these authors, it was possible to understand how Higher Education was shaped throughout history and the transformations that the society has passed, as well as the development of knowledge and science, according to the context in which it was inserted. After this discussion, the study presents the history of the Brazilian university and how the Internationalization of Higher Education has been configured over time, becoming an emerging theme of World Education and its implications in the university and, consequently, in the students‟ academic trajectory. Therefore, this approach was based on Ana Waleska Mendonça (2000), Maria de Lourdes Fávero (2006), Alfredo Gomes and Karine Moraes (2012); Jane Knight (2010; 2012; 2014) and Marília Costa Morosini (1997; 2006) and Pablo Kreimer (2009). In addition, the study establishes a dialogue about the process of human development (LIEV VIGOTSKI, 1991; 1995; 2012), regarding the formation of superior psychological functions and changes and learning involved in this process. It is also discussed, the role of the school / university for these changes and learning (TERESA CRISTINA REGO, 2002; 2003), based on international experiences in this context, through the Science Without Borders program. This study has as methodological characteristic the qualitative approach. The research instruments used were documental analysis and semistructured interviews with students. It was analyzed the international documents "Learning for All: Investing in People's Knowledge and Skills to Promote Development" - published in 2011 by the World Bank and "Education Policy Analysis: Focus on Higher Education - 2005-2006" - published in 2006 by the OCDC and the institutional documents of UTFPR: Institutional Development Plan - IDP 2013 - 2017 and the Pedagogical Projects of Undergraduate Courses from UTFPR, Francisco Beltrão Campus. For the analysis of both documents and interviews, the principles of Content Analysis (LAURENCE BARDIN, 1977) were used, and in this process, it was possible to identify two categories: culture and autonomy. The main elements found, based on the students' speeches, which are based on the concept of culture were: language, worldview, prejudice, eating habits and study routine. The elements found, which gave sense to the autonomy category were: independence, maturity, responsibility, self-knowledge, courage, discipline and focus. From this, the syntheses carried out are related to the comprehension that the international experience of living and studying outside Brazil has brought to each student different learning experiences and changes, according to their trajectories, as well as the relations established and the meanings given for each new situation experienced. In this way, it was possible to conclude that the international experiences, which the interviewed students passed through, from the Science Without Borders Program, brought them several implications, which provided the process of human development.