A pesquisa científica no âmbito acadêmico: a percepção de saberes vivenciados pelos membros do Grupo de Pesquisa GEPES

Abstract

Academic training through research is a consequence of the tripod teaching, research and extension that establishes the role of a higher education, one of the university's roles is to promote the knowledge produced by science through scientific initiation (CI), which at the secretarial level is still little spread. The questions that led to the research were to identify the factors that led the undergraduate students of the Executive Secretariat of the Federal University of Ceará (UFC) to join the GEPES? What did this decision conceive in the academic and personal lives of these students? With these questions came the interest of discovering and studying the possibilities and influences in the academic and personal formation of these students. Bringing as a general objective to identify how participation in a research group can influence academic and personal training for those who choose the field of research. In this way the specific objectives were delineated: 1) To share the factors that drive and lead the students of the UFC Executive Secretariat to enter the academic scope through the research; 2) Identify how far the GEPES has met the students' needs when they decided to join the research; 3) Find out what are the factors that encourage graduating members of the research group to want to continue or give up the choice to become a researcher. This research fits as qualitative and comes to investigate from the narratives of the former members of the GEPES, all their experiences, with the purpose of answering the questions raised in this work. For the accomplishment of the objectives, the methodological approach was to use certain methods of the (auto) bibliographic research, with the intention of collecting the narratives of the participants, providing the integration of them with the researcher. The results obtained were all the answers to the questions and all the objectives of the research, highlighting as the main factor the self knowledge of each subject participating in the research. For all this, this research ends, giving the opportunity for other students to have a new personal trajectory based on the stories contained.