“Co yvy ore retama”?: quem e quais são as dificuldades dos alunos de pedagogia da Universidade Federal do Tocantins (UFT) – Palmas

Abstract

The indigenous population's access to undergraduate courses at the Federal University of Tocantins has been guaranteed since the institution's creation in 2003. Permanence and success have been challenges ever since. This article is the result of research carried out on the Palmas campus, with indigenous students linked to the Pedagogy course, in 2019; approved by the CEP, under CAEE 51942221.3.0000.5519, involving six of the nine students through a descriptive study with data collection directly with the subjects; and guided by the methodological assumptions of the phenomenological approach: i) describe the findings, with a view to collaborating with the course management process in order to subsidize teachers with elements that allow them to understand reality; ii) management indicator, internal and external evaluation processes, expressed in the document, experienced by students; and iii) develop formative teaching and learning processes that impact on the well-being, belonging and performance of students. The results indicate that economic factors and difficulties in accessing information have an impact on performance, as they make access to the campus difficult and affect the acquisition of equipment necessary for conducting learning. Another determining element is the feeling of not belonging to the university and the course, which reverberates on motivation and attendance. In response, actions already developed in other universities are listed and suggested as coping strategies, which are related to reception, integration, knowledge and consideration for what they need to reach the levels required by university performance indicators and the fulfillment of their expectations.