Existindo na universidade: um estudo da vida acadêmica a partir de oficinas de criatividade.

Abstract

Nowadays, the matter of university suffering is gaining more and more visibility. Faced with the demands of contemporaneity and the recent news of suicides and attempts attributed to academic causes, it is increasingly necessary to conceive spaces to promove attention and support to students, so that collective endurance can be articulated, in an environment that disseminates individualism and competitiveness every day. The present research aims to understand how the support groups constitute themselves as spaces of promotion of affiliation for students of higher education through the implementation of creativity workshops in the Clinical School of Psychology of the Federal University of Campina Grande. Semi-structured interviews were conducted out with six students who participated in a support group led in said service. The collected material was analyzed through the Thematic Analysis, a modality of Content Analysis. The categories found in the results were: Obstacles to Permanence, Consequences of Adversities, Workshops for Resilience and Changes and Potentialities. The results showed an improvement in the way students dealt with university issues and the creative workshops proved to be promising strategies for this purpose. It is believed that the study will allow new directions of strategies to deal with university suffering. It is understood that the university experience does not have to be a tortuous, exhausting and discouraging trajectory. There are other ways of thinking about the university and this research is an invitation to explore this alternative.