WHEN THE PANDEMIC PASSES, BUT REMAINS: SUBJECTIVE REFLECTIONS FOR THE EMPOWERMENT OF LEARNING IN GRADUATE STUDIES

Abstract

This research investigates the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on a Graduate Program at UFPA, bringing insights into the cognitive dynamics and the correlation of these factors with the academic performance of students and graduates of the Master's Degree. In addition, the construct sought to understand and analyze, movements and attitudes said to be resilient for the empowerment of subjectivities, which the participants did to keep their academic learning active, in the face of the scenario they were going through. In this sense, the data revealed that 93.9% of the participants showed that problems related to mental health intensified in the face of the health crisis, reverberating in academic performance. In order to achieve the results, in order to answer the research questions and the proposed objective, an electronic questionnaire via Google Forms was used  to collect data from graduates (2019 to 2022) and students (2023 to 2024). In light of this, Content Analysis was adopted for the inferences of the open questions, while for the closed questions, a descriptive statistical was carried out to understand the panorama, in the indications of the qualitative research. In fact, the analysis revealed that family support (63.6%) was a strength to boost and subsidize the empowerment of subjectivities, as well as religious practices (51.5%) proved to provide resilience for not dropping out of the course, culminating in overcoming and strengthening in the face of obstacles. It should be noted that the choice of the two distinct groups in temporal contexts is justified in the comparative form and in the subjective perceptions in view of the impacts on the academic trajectory: the graduates represent those who experienced the master's degree in the pandemic, while the students entered the post-pandemic scenario. However, it is worth noting that although the groups were at different times, they presented similar entanglements.