PPG students in Cultural Processes and Manifestations present work at the event, which goes on until this Friday
Doctoral students Daniel Keller and Patrícia Spindler, from the Postgraduate Program (PPG) in Cultural Processes and Manifestations at Feevale University, are participating in the conference “Superior education of the future: social transformation, quality, pertinence and sustainability”. The event, which takes place in Havana (Cuba), began this Monday, the 5th, and continues until Friday, the 9th.
The call for the congress is based on the framework of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, a global action plan of the United Nations (UN). The two works will be part of Symposium 3: University extension, commitment, and social transformation for sustainable development.
Daniel Keller's work, which will be presented online, has the theme "Higher education and social transformation" and addresses how extension projects developed by universities, especially in Fashion and Design courses, meet demands from the external community, working on meeting the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) established by the UN in the 2030 report. The SDGs are goals shared globally between public and private initiatives, including educational institutions for the preservation of global quality of life, people's cultures, and respect for identities.
The work, written in co-authorship with professor Claudia Schemes, made use of the case study of an extension action at Feevale University. In the action, an exhibition at the National Footwear Museum (MNC) was adapted for people with visual impairments. On the occasion, students from the Fashion course, guided by the teacher, dedicated themselves to understanding the needs of the public, developing strategies, products, items, and resources for the exhibition experience at the Museum.
Patrícia Spindler will be in person presenting the work “Processes of subjectivation and cinema: fiction and reality”, which is supervised by professor Daniel Conte. She is a teacher and carries out an extension project about cinema at a state school in Novo Hamburgo with Psychology graduates. Her work is carried out at the Faculty of Psychology at IENH, where she teaches the curricular component Interventions in Social Psychology. Undergraduates carry out interventions in social psychology in high school, through the screening of films, documentaries, episodes of series or short films, followed by debate and intervention. The results are powerful, both for the target audience, which are teenage high school students, as well as in relation to the protagonism of university students. For teaching in Psychology, it is significant, as the relationship between science and art strengthens the possibilities for Psychology to act, which establishes itself as an inclusive, democratic, and plural practice to interact with contemporary subjectivity through an ethical, aesthetic, and political perspective.
Publicizing university actions to meet community demands at a global event is a way of disseminating scientific knowledge, reinforcing the social perspective that academics develop in extension projects, currently required by higher education legislation in Brazil. The sponsors of the doctoral students' work are the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (Capes) and Feevale University.
