Vida estudantil e os percalços da afiliação universitária: um olhar sobre jovens cotistas no Recôncavo da Bahia

Abstract

Youth is a stage in life whose conflicts are intense in certain choices that guide the paths to adulthood. The university , despite the high selectivity still exists , has become one of those possible choices . However learn to cope with the academic and institutional rules, therefore not to fail is fundamental in student life . This has a severe learning difficulty, which intensify when referring to students tickets from affirmative action, coming from vulnerable social strata . Thus , this study sought to identify characteristics and difficulties involved in the process of affiliation to higher education for students shareholders, checking the differences they perceived between school and university life . The study subjects were six freshmen students at the Federal University of Bahia Recôncavo (UFRB), through affirmative action policies . The work develops ruled by a qualitative approach, using techniques such as participant observation and comprehensive interview. Thus, it was possible to verify that the first semester in college are marked by difficulties and uncertainties winning ways mainly through the difference between the design of learning experienced in school and now in college . Calls up the academic subjects that are applied in the classroom without considering what they had studied before, indicating problems in learning for not knowing the issues that should have been seen in high school . Also point to the lack of information in relation to welfare programs and university sectors, developing a sense of "being lost " , as well as the lack of institutional support . The family presented so far in the fundamental claim admission as the university residence. Students indicate that the need not go through the same hardships experienced by families along with the continuous support received , character emotional and / or financial support were essential for the continuation of studies . We realize that entering university means to these guys a possibility of personal fulfillment and economic rise despite the difficulties experienced in daily academic. We understand that the process of affiliation with university life requires these young people develop skills that enable practices to remain in this new space that differs from school, prepare them for adult life and not for a new high school series. It is noteworthy that the forms and pace of learning are manifested differently among undergraduates, given that they have little time to acquire certain skills that engage the University, as well as characteristics and living conditions differentiated. What points us to the need for better Pedagogical and institutional mechanisms that facilitate the integration taking into account the peculiarities of students helping them in the process of affiliation with the university environment.