Engajamento acadêmico na perspectiva dos/as concluintes do curso de Pedagogia da UFPB

Abstract

Ostudent engagement during the formative process, particularly in Higher Education, is of paramount importance for the development of student autonomy and for the active participation of the student in his/her own learning. Engaging in your own training process is a complex factor that involves different elements, contexts and possibilities. Thus, this Course Completion Work (TCC) has as its central objective: to analyze engagement from the perspective of students completing the Pedagogy Course at Campus I of the Federal University of Paraíba. In addition, the research has the following specific objectives: to map the strategies used by the students to monitor the course's curricular and extracurricular activities; and reflect on the challenges and possibilities for training commitment from the perspective of graduates of the Pedagogy Course. From the methodological point of view, to achieve the proposed objectives, a qualitative and quantitative research was developed, in whichthe production of empirical materialwas carried out through the application of a virtual questionnaire, through a form on Google Forms, directed to graduating Pedagogy students, in the time frame of the period 2021.2. As a result, it is possible to see that engagement is an important strategy to promote learning, academic involvement and student retention. Even the students completing the Pedagogy Course, participants in this research, recognize engagement as a factor that makes a difference in the training process, however they point out that it is a great challenge for them to remain engaged in university life with so many social and economic difficulties that cross them. In this sense, we believe that Pedagogy professionals are fundamental to promoting education with social quality and, therefore, we reinforce the importance of receiving solid training, which necessarily demands.