Meanings of Permanence: The Production of Writing Spaces for Students Assisted by Permanence Programs at the Anísio Teixeira Campus at UFBA.
Keywords: University; Student Assistance; Qualified Stay.
This work emerged with the purpose of creating strategies for qualified student permanence in higher education and applied at the Multidisciplinary Institute in Health – Campus Anísio Teixeira (IMS-CAT) of the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA). As for the general objective, it intended: to provide a space in the university environment that allows a qualified student stay and that enhances the various existing knowledge by stimulating the production of knowledge by students assisted by the Coordination of Affirmative Actions and Student Assistance (COAE). As for the specific objectives, we sought to: a) Encourage the academic production of students assisted by student assistance at UFBA/Conquista; b) Stimulate new forms of knowledge production in the IMS-CAT, making visible the diversity and plurality existing on the campus; c) Provide a space that guarantees a place of speech and/or enunciation locus for students assisted by COAE, so that they can express themselves and actively participate in issues that affect the university and/or society. Thus, to achieve these goals, an action research performed, which culminated in the creation of the Web newspaper COAE. This newspaper exclusively published texts by students assisted by COAE, among which are students from social “minorities” and who are socially marked by issues of race, class, ethnicity, gender, among others. As for the content of the newspaper, the texts dealt with the difficulties faced by students to remain at university through the use of remote learning during the Covid-19 Pandemic. The newspaper was an instrument that boosted the academic production of students, highlighted the “voices of minorities” and encouraged the active participation of these students in the university.
Keywords: University; Student Assistance; Qualified Stay.