Internacionalização da Educação Superior: um estudo sobre o Programa Ciência sem Fronteiras no IFPB

• Autor(a) principal: Pinto , Patrícia Nogueira de Carvalho
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFPB
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/tede/9324
• topic: Internacionalização; Ciência sem Fronteiras; Internationalization; Ciência sem Fronteira Program; POLITICAS PUBLICAS::ANALISE INSTITUCIONAL

The debate on internationalization of college education has been raising in the last years. One of the most known programs on the subject offered by Brazil College Institutions is the Ciência sem Fronteiras (Science without Borders) Program. The Ciência sem Fronteiras Program has been receiving big financial investments from the Federal Government making it possible to engage a significant number of students on it. This dissertation has the aim of assessing the Ciência sem Fronteiras Program as a internationalization of college education public policy at IFPB (Instituto Federal da Paraíba - Paraíba State Federal Institution). The approach described here uses a case study by interviewing people directly engaged in the program: students and the program manager; both types of interviews give support to the program assessment inside the context of the IFPB educational institution. The results of this study either enrich the debate about the concept of internationalization of college education considering the continuous expansion of the Federal Institutions and it raises the main challenges faced by students when they are abroad; the results help to understand the students profile and the program worth to their professional and technological background as well. The study theoretical support is given through concepts like globalization and internationalization as a public policy and its connection to the college education. The emerging and continuous expansion of the Federal Net of Professional, Scientific and Technological Education in the Paraíba State in the last decades is also considered as a theoretical support. From the presented and assessed results it is possible to conclude that the internationalization of college education process, considering either the IFPB context and the globalization of the contemporary world, is a core factor to country development, that happens through the interchange of knowledge as well as technologies culminating in the professional and technological background of the students therefore contributing to the institutional mission of IFPB.