La construcción de la pedagogía universitaria en una nueva institución de enseñanza superior: un estudio de los tres primeros años de la creación de la Universidad Federal de Pampa - Unipampa

Abstract

This thesis aims to understand the building process of the university pedagogy at Universidade Federal do Pampa – UNIPAMPA – during its three first years of installment. A research with descriptive objective and qualitative focus took place. The study was of an only case. The first step was the research project. The study proposal was presented, divided into three categories and their constituted elements: The university education (total education of the scholar; teaching/learning, research and outreach; relation professor/student and continuing education),the “professional development for the faculty” (professor education for higher education, teaching knowledge; professional advancement; adequate professional environment that leads to interactions and knowledge and teaching career building) as well as the institutional organization and assessment (participative planning with definite aims and goals; continuing evaluation of processes and search of improvements and support pedagogy to the university professor). To interpret these findings a “matrix of placement of interviewers” was designed, as well as a “matrix of documental analysis”, based on the matrix of effects of Gil (2009, p. 106). A “combination of standard” was also developed (Yin, 2010, p. 165). The result can be considered positive, and each category, when at least 50% of elements out of the analyzed elements, have had a “yes” as answer. In the second phase, there was a concern to build a case study protocol. The researcher used observation, interviews and documents research. Two people that were part of the Institutional Administration and the two first professors of Santana do Livramento Campus were interviewed. The data was analyzed through content, speech and triangulation. The Institutional Administration and the University documents showed that UNIPAMPA has demonstrated concern towards the university pedagogy categories in 2008, 2009 and 2010. The first professors have realized the institutional commitment to the analysis categories, despite some notes. On the other hand, the students have noticed institutional concern in only one category, “university education”. The study has showed that all documentation of the institution was built after the Law that implements UNIPAMPA. The university pedagogy was built in a collective and democratic way, in the course of three years, based on a progressive proposal of education. In the first years, there were seminars for the faculty (annual) that were considered as opportunities for thinking, building and interaction among the staff. CAP was created in 2010, aiming to start the pedagogy implementation at UNIPAMPA. CAP was divided into: Pedagogical Support Division and Seminars for Knowledge Areas Support Division. CAP was in all campuses. In this context, Professor Developing Program (Welcome Project for the Entering Professor – PAAPI, Qualifying Higher Education Professors Project PADS and the Teaching Qualification Project – ProGen) were created. Later, CAP turned into COORDEP and suffered some structural changes. The NuDE was also created in each campus. At the end of this study, it is possible to understand that COORDED needs to be empowered, as well as the programs need to be reactivated, once they were interrupted. In this sense, it is also important to reinforce the NuDEs and the university pedagogy at UNIPAMPA in order to advance.