Formação humana na Universidade de Caxias do Sul : convivência acadêmica em foco

Abstract

I present in this dissertation the discussion about the concept of academic conviviality from the Institutional Development Plans (IDP) 2012-2016 and 2017-2021 of University os Caxias do Sul (UCS). For such task, I debate about the concept of university, its history, general objectives, the contemporary situation and the existing models in Brazil. I also, briefly, review the UCS’ history approaching mainly the communitarian character of its emergence.In support of conviviality, I use the levinasian theory of alterity, focusing on the concepts of Other, infinity and welcoming. Also avail myself of authors like Buber, Bauman e Melucci to justify my vision on the individual and its behavior in community. I understand that learning starts from the relation among indivuduals, in socialization. Therefore I highlight the importance of opening and welcoming the Other. I subdivide the socialization in four levels: (1) contraposition, in this level there’s no acceptance of the Other; (2) coexistence, in this level the Other cohabits the same enviroment however there’s no relation, (3) inclusion, in this level the Other has its needs met to stay in the same enviroment, but there’s no relation and; (4) conviviality, in this level the Other is accepted and welcomed in its difference, there is a relation. I built the data for interpretation from the IDP’s related to the periods of 2012- 2016 and 2017-2021 of UCS. I’ve followed orientations from the indiciary paradigm and from the textual analysis discursive, that is, I’ve extracted the fragments that mentioned socialization and the word conviviality. I’ve grouped them into axes of meaning according to the theme to which they refer, this categorization was made a posteriori. I’ve added to the fragments informations of which chapter and subchapter they were part in the IDP. With these informations, I’ve transformed the texts into charts. I’ve realized that UCS in its politics and guidelines develops activities and encourages the academics to socialization. Furthermore the number of fragments increased on the last IDP, I consider that as an indicative that UCS is giving more emphasis to the socialization. Traditionally the universities have as a principle the theoretical and scientific training and the human formation, as well, but contemporaneously, many institutions are priorizing the theorical training, leaving in the background the integral formation of the student. I defend that the human formation must have space into the educational and academical enviroment, and the socialization is one of the means by which this process can happen.