Coletivo(s) de mulheres e a construção de laços de fortalecimento para a permanência no curso de Pedagogia

Abstract

The following term paper (Trabalho de Conclusão de Curso, in Brazilian Portuguese) seeks to reflect on a collective of women’s support, raised on the Pedagogy Undergraduate Course (Curso de Pedagogia) from the Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB) and its contributions to the permanence of female students in the course. This collective of women has settled itself over the course of the academic years from 2015 to 2020. Therefore, I look after describing and thinking over the members’ bond and the collective’s strategies in providing for women to stay in the Pedagogy Course. I come from the idea that the hardships faced by these students to keep themselves in the course are closely associated to gender registration and the current manner of thinking and conceiving knowledge in educational institutions, which is conducted by an androcentric background. The employed methodological approaches were the self narrative writing and the collection of reports from four students who make up the referred collective. The guiding question presented to the participants of the research was: “How did the collective pitched in to your permanency in the Pedagogy Course?”. In terms of theoretical perspective, this paper is mainly based on the concepts of gender, feminism and collective. Thereupon, it was possible to recognize that the group’s contributions come from the hospitality, listening and discussion on the life experiences of these students, who find resonance of meaning within the collective. The results of this research point to the need for investment in an education based on ethical and solidary principles and to the importance of collectives as welcoming spaces and empowerment of women.