THE EMOTIONAL IMPACT OF EXCLUSION FOR UNDERGRADUATES IN EXACT SCIENCES AT UNICAMPThis research aimed to identify and analyze the main situations that determine the exclusion process experienced by students who were excluded from Exact Sciences courses at the University, as well as to investigate the affective/subjective impacts resulting from this exclusion on the students’ life stories. A questionnaire was sent to students who dropped out of Exact Sciences courses at Unicamp between 2015 and 2020, from which 66 responses were obtained and 5 participants were selected from the Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics, Statistics and Course 51 courses, with whom Recurrent Interviews were conducted. Based on the analysis of the Thematic Nuclei, the discussion of this work covered three axes: institutional policies and students’ academic performance; inadequate teaching methods and teacher training for Higher Education; mental health and the exclusion process. The data discussion made it possible to list some possible institutional policies that aim to remedy the problem of exclusion in Higher Education.
Keywords:
higher education; exclusion; affectivity; evasion; academic performance