Internacionalização educacional: contribuições para a formação acadêmica e profissional na educação superior

Abstract

Educational internationalization is an issue that is in full development. With globalization, the internationalization of higher education has been developing and spreading worldwide, inserting Brazil in this context. This research has as its main objective to investigate the contributions of educational internationalization for academic and professional training, from the perception of the participants of an international mobility program. Therefore, a qualitative and descriptive study was conducted, having as its investigative methods the documental research, participant observation and field research. The research tool used was a questionnaire directed to fifty (50) participants of the Top China Santander Program, whose subjects were Chinese and Brazilian students and Chinese and Brazilian teachers who developed their activities at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2014. For the interpretation of the information a content analysis was taken. After analyzing the data, it was inferred that the contributions of educational internationalization to the academic and professional training, in the perception of the participants of an educational mobility program are related to the possibility of knowing a country of ancient culture, broadening their horizons, as well as to the challenge of working with people from other cultures, experiencing situations other than those they are accustomed to and to communicating in English. These aspects may contribute to the academic and professional training of the student, by creating opportunities for an education that goes beyond the walls of the university, preparing future professionals for the challenges of the organizational world inserted in contexts of profound changes brought about by globalization.