Circunstâncias de criação, implantação e consolidação do Centro Acadêmico de Enfermagem 12 de Maio da Universidade Federal de Alagoas

Abstract

This is a qualitative study, of historical and social nature, whose objectives were to describe the circumstances of creation and implementation of the Centro Acadêmico de Enfermagem 12 de Maio and to analyze the symbolic struggles undertaken for the consolidation of the entity in the field of university and education, in the time frame from 1981 to 1991, from its creation to the management called “10 years of struggle” in commemoration of its 10 years. For this, the sources consulted were: the oral statements resulting from the transcript of 10 interviews conducted with members of the Academic Center management during the analyzed period and with social actors cited by any of these, for their direct involvement with the historical phenomenon under study; minutes of meetings of the entity from 1987 stored at its headquarters; documents produced by the Academic Center in reference to its 10 years of existence, filed in the Laboratório de Documentação e Pesquisa em História da Enfermagem – LADOPHE; documents provided by the deponents and bibliographical productions about the History of the Student Movement in Brazil and Alagoas. The information produced from these sources was analyzed in line with the historical method, triangulating a discussion between oral and written sources and the theoretical framework adopted, namely Pierre Bourdieu. From this sociologist were used the concepts of field, capital, habitus, symbolic struggle and symbolic power. The results of this analysis showed that the positions and dispositions of the social actors that shaped the social space of struggles of the Centro Acadêmico 12 de Maio, as well as the macropolitical context, were favorable to its creation in May 1981. They also point out that, as a result of the struggles symbolic and strategies undertaken by the entity's students in the subsequent processes for its implementation and consolidation, important symbolic effects were produced, namely: recognition in the undergraduate nursing course and at UFAL and the articulation with the National Executive of Nursing Students. Thus, this study is the starting point for many other researches on the paths taken by the Student Nursing Movement in Brazil and Alagoas to the present time.