Percursos e reflexões de uma futura bióloga: da universidade à área de atuação em histopatologia

Abstract

Through an analysis based on the perspective of critical curriculum theory, I explored my paths as a bachelor's student in Biological Sciences at the Federal University of Ceará. Going through my experiences from freshman to acting as a biologist in pathology, I reflected on paths taken and not taken, and discussed strategies of permanence and autonomy in the academic environment and outside it. When recalling the almost six years of this trajectory, I expose in this work the experiences that shaped my training and the main challenges I faced during graduation. With the objective of approaching and debating, through personal reports, issues that cover students such as the development of their professional profile and identity, the importance of the internship, and insertion in the job market. I found that the transgression of the curricular structure, added to extracurricular experiences, allows the construction of being a biologist in contrast to a training inclined to an academic career where more theory and research are valued and little the profession of the profession. As a result of these reflections, the life story narrative allowed me to enjoy the uniqueness and the recognition that our context shapes us and defines many of our possibilities, on the other hand, we are the ones who attribute meaning and meaning to what we experience. It was the multidisciplinarity experiences, such as pathology and art, that allowed me to survive in the course and provided perspectives for professional performance.