This work presents the result of a research “University education of students from peripheral HEIs: a study on the Óbidos da Ufopa campus”. It aimed to answer how the new graduate of higher education, belonging to the category of “new student” assisted by a peripheral higher education institution, manifests its relationship with knowledge, what are his objective and subjective dispositions to study and what investments performs to his own training. More specifically, it seeks to discover if the student's epistemological stance towards knowledge: open or closed. The research takes as research subject the student of Pedagogy of the campus of county of Óbidos of the Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará – Ufopa, for presenting characteristics analogous to the concept of new student and for being enrolled in an extremely isolated peripheral campus. The work carries out a conceptual study, resuming and discussing essential concepts for understanding the problem as new student, peripheral university, objective and subjective dispositions and epistemological posture (BRITTO, et. al., 2008; CORRÊA, 2017; SANTANA, 2019). It works with the concept of training in Adorno (2005), approaching the
concepts of training in Heller (2016) and Freire (2019). The data production as based on a
survey made using a google forms formulary sent to 111 students, in order to understand the
material conditions of students, study practices, training investments, motivations for higher
education. In addition to this, a round of talk meeting was held with four scholarship holders of
scientific initiation and extension, to deepen issues related to the epistemological stance and
analysis of students regarding the data produced. The Integrated Sistema Integrado de Gestão
de Atividades Acadêmicas – Sigaa (Academic Activity Management System) was consulted to
reached new data to allow better understandig of the construction of the student's academic
profile. The analysis of the data conducted to the perception that the student of the campus of
Óbidos may be categorized as a “new student”; it also demonstrates that the Óbidos campus
takes an tremendous peripheral position in the field of higher education and, specifically to
university education, points to the student's stiffened behavior in the face of knowledge (closed
epistemological stance) and low personal training investment due to the condition of poverty
and little subjective disposition.
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