Experiências de internacionalização do currículo no Curso Superior Tecnológico em Gastronomia da UNISC : memórias de formação, saberes e interculturalidade.

Abstract

This dissertation is the result of a research in the scope of the Internationalization of the Curriculum (IoC) that sought to analyze the memories of the graduates of the Technological Higher Course in Gastronomy at the University of Santa Cruz do Sul (UNISC) in relation to the intercultural training that took place in their mobility experiences academic in France, proposing ways and alternatives to qualify the processes and practices of this internationalization. In addition, as specific objectives, we sought to understand the main difficulties experienced by graduates in the experience of academic mobility, problematizing the role played by different agents of the agreement between UNISC and L’Intermédiaire School; identify and explain the intercultural knowledge that emerges in academic mobility practices and understand how graduates signify their professional training based on the experience of academic mobility. Of qualitative nature, with an approach inspired by elements of (auto)biographical research in education, the procedures for data production were: interviews with 5 graduates, 1 exchange student in, the coordinator of the gastronomy course and the coordinator of the International and Interinstitutional Affairs Office at UNISC, in addition to the author's memory notebook, written during the making of this research. As a complement to the research corpus, we used some legal and/or institutional documents relating to the agreement. For data analysis, the research was based on Discursive Textual Analysis, and the main categories of analysis were: internationalization of higher education, internationalization of the curriculum, intercultural knowledge and hospitality. The results obtained shows the need for improvements in the management of academic mobility processes abroad carried out by students of the Technological Higher Course in Gastronomy at UNISC. The construction of intercultural knowledge by graduates during their mobility experiences is also confirmed, especially those linked to cultural, linguistic, social, technological, personal and professional knowledge, providing intercultural experiences of formation.