Socio-environmental diagnostic of an undergraduate student's dormitory and the community which surrounds it: a study of the relationship between the university and the society

• Grant number: 11/08602-4
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: July 01, 2011
• End date: December 31, 2011
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Education - Specific topics in Education
• Principal Investigator: Maria de Lourdes Spazziani
• Grantee: André Santachiara Fossaluza
• Host Institution: Instituto de Biociências (IBB). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Botucatu. Botucatu , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Dormitories are places offered by Brazilian public Universities to undergraduate students evaluated as socio-economically less favored aiming to guarantee the housing of the student in the locality they take a given undergraduate course, once housing is one the points which compose the tripod that supports the concept of student permanence, along with conditions of transportations and food. These places, however, present problems in their management, especially the ones related to social and environmental questions, caused by wrong attitudes and pre-concepts of their own residents, other students and the communities who live around them. So, this work aims to identify and analyze the socio-environmental conditions of an undergraduate student's dormitory located in the city of Botucatu/SP and kept by the Universidade Estadual Paulista "Júlio de Mesquita Filho" (Unesp), as the conditions of the community which surrounds this place. With the data obtained it is aimed to develop educational interventions to improve the relationships among the students themselves and among these and the people who live in the communities based on the ethical and technical concepts from Agroecology and Permaculture. (AU)