Confrontations and wear and tear of academic life: a proposal for an undergraduate courseObjective: To identify the contributions of the course “Coping with the wear and tear of university life” to promote the joint development of strategies by students to strengthen their academic experience.
Method: This is a descriptive study with a qualitative approach based on participant research, the product of a master’s thesis. Students were asked to answer open-ended questions related to the causes of the stresses of academic life and coping strategies applied on the first and last days of class.
Results and Discussion: Nine undergraduate students participated in the course. At the end of the course, the students’ conceptions of the wear and tear of academic life and its causes began to include the structural dimension of the reproduction of neoliberal values in the university, and coping strategies focused on those related to student movements and collective participation.
Conclusion: The course contributed to the understanding of the roots of the wear and tear of the students’ academic experience and the development of proposals for collective coping.
DESCRIPTORS
Universities; Stress, Psychological; Policy; Community-Based Participatory Research