The institutional exhanges between graduation students and its importance in university integration politics

Author(s)

Alicia de Lima Eiras

• Document type: Master's Dissertation
• Press: Campinas, SP.
• Institution: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Faculdade de Educação
• Defense date: 2009-07-27

Examining board members

Nora Rut Krawczyk; Maria Estela Dal Pai Franco; Salvador Antonio Mireles Sandoval; Vera Lucia Vieira; Eloisa de Mattos Höfling

• Advisor: Nora Rut Krawczyk

Abstract

The processes of globalization and regionalization that characterize the current economic, social and politics relations between the different countries had lead to the process of regionalization of the university systems and consequent intensification of scientific exchange politics. Researches about graduation students exchanges, one university regionalization process modality, are still incipient; in this context, the analyses of students exchange experiences and its importance on the university regionalization politics are relevant informations for its formulators, university authorities and researchers of this area. For development of such analyses, interviews were made in Brazil (State University of Campinas, Unicamp) and Argentina (University of Buenos Aires, UBA) with students, professors, employees and responsible for Exchange Programs. Moreover, some information of universities and Exchanges Programs websites had been incorporated in the analyses. The qualitative analyses allow us to conclude that the exchange experiences have shown capable to provide rich academic and cultural experiences to the exchange students. The criticisms made by all interviewed ones indicate that the problems of Exchange Programs are being institutionallyv incorporated and, therefore, evaluated. In the same way, the respective suggestions pointed throughout the research (which aim the development of academic and integration activities, as well as the evaluation and control practices for exchange students) could be considered by the competent authorities. It is expected that the present research contributes to the problems and challenges discussion about the institutional exchange experiences, under the integration politics perspective and its effects on Latin America higher education institutions. (AU)