A trajetória acadêmica de uma discente de pedagogia: recortes de uma realidade desafiadora

Abstract

This graduation work is an indispensable tool for the full implementation of an academic course, specifically in the degree course in pedagogy at the Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB) of which I am a student. The referred to is presented in the format of a memorial, which is a report of autobiographical experience that discusses the diagnosis of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), from which I was affected and, with all the consequences resulting from this diagnosis, in the biological, physical, social, psychic and economic, just to name a few examples. Its general objective is to show in detail and in various instances/contexts, the experience with AIDS within UFPB and what is the institution's perspective on these students. Methodologically, we contemplate in the body of this work detailed information about my experiences in the light of a bibliographical and field research, in which three questions for teachers, student supporters and people who assisted me during of my training, through student support policies and programs, within the institution. Finally, this memorial is concluded aware of all the challenges faced by me, as a pedagogy student living with AIDS. In the certainty that problematize issues such as the “standardization” of those ones who live with AIDS, the “feeling” and its aspects, the importance of public policies in society, the experience and coexistence with other subjects in the hospital and, above all, in the academy, must be present in the curriculum of pedagogy students.