Vida emocional e formação universitária antes e durante a pandemia de COVID-19: a perspectiva de jovens estudantes do Campus Sertão da UFAL

Abstract

The present work aimed to know the affective experience of young people in relation to university education. As the empirical research was carried out in the initial phase of the Covid-19 pandemic, we analyzed the context of remote university education – offered from the Exceptional Academic Period (EAP) at our university in 2020 – comparing with face-to-face teaching, pre-pandemic. The empirical research was carried out through the online application of two forms, made available on a free digital platform to obtain the necessary data regarding the emotional and educational experience lived by the Young person in face-to-face teaching and in the first remote learning, offered at the time in exceptional character. Students from civil engineering, production engineering, literature and pedagogy courses from the Sertão campus of the Federal University of Alagoas (UFAL) participated in the research. Twenty-three people contributed to the first stage of the research (form I, on face-to-face teaching) and nineteen of them continued the second stage (answering form II, about their experience in EAP). Based on the information obtained, we found that the participants, in face-to-face and remote education, define their positive academic experiences eminently associated with fellowship, contact with others, peers – in addition to academic content. In the context of social distancing due to the pandemic, this is a worrying factor, as the affective bonds provided by routine on campus are obviously impacted, thus reflecting on the emotional life of undergraduates. From this work, we understand that it is of fundamental importance for the individual to pay attention to their emotional life, considering that the affective difficulties faced in remote education indicate that this is a problem that universities will have to deal with seriously.