Intercâmbio acadêmico na percepção dos estudantes estrangeiros, gestores e docentes: um estudo na Universidade Federal do Ceará

Abstract

The increase in the flow of people from different countries and cultures, through immigration and tourism processes caused by globalization, favored the dissemination of knowledge. Demonstrated through the process of academic exchange, it is seen as transactions related to education, and that can contribute to the internationalization of higher education. In this sense, it is necessary to understand how the academic exchange process takes place at the Federal University of Ceará, since an experience of international academic mobility can impact both the students and the teaching institutions involved. The present research has as general objective to analyze how the process of academic exchange in the UFC can be more efficient, in the perception of its foreign students, managers and teachers. A bibliographic study on the subject was carried out in order to provide a theoretical basis for the research, and subsequently, semistructured interviews with eleven individuals were carried out. These students and foreign students were or were in the academic exchange at the Federal University of Ceará of university professors and managers. The results show that the main difficulties inherent in the exchange process are linguistic and logistic factors that must be dealt with previously by the university to make the exchange experience better for its students, teachers and its management. With this we can conclude that internationalization plays a very important role for the Institution of Higher Education, since there is the sense of developing a better academic environment for the performance of these individuals.