Ensino-aprendizagem em administração : as experiências dos graduandos com as disciplinas de finanças

Abstract

The educational conditions of basic education (elementary and high school levels) are not always conducive to the development and maturation of students, and there is still the perception that they do not have the ability to direct their self-learning, either by lack of maturity or by low experience. Given this scenario, students may present difficulties, especially when it comes to learning basic quantitative subjects. Such difficulties are highlighted by the increase in the degree of complexity and by the adoption of a higher level of demand that an undergraduate degree requires, becoming deficiencies and impairing the academic-professional education. Therefore, this study aims to analyze the experiences related to the teaching-learning of undergraduate students in Business Administration at the Federal University of Sergipe with the disciplines of the area of Finance. For this, a qualitative research of a descriptive and exploratory nature was carried out through the application of the following technical procedures: document analysis and focus group. As an instrument of data collection for the document analysis, the resolutions nº 4/2005/CES/CNE and nº 69/2012/CONEPE/UFS were used, which regulate the undergraduate course in Business Administration at the Federal University of Sergipe. Furthermore, it been used as instrument of data collection a focus group script developed based on the specific objectives and their respective analytical categories. The questions proposed in the script were applied to 8 (eight) students, which form the focus group object of study. Based on the theoretical foundation – especially Revans’ (1980) action learning and Kolb’s (1984) experiential learning – developed in this work, the data were analyzed using a comprehensive interpretative analysis. According to the results obtained, it can be concluded that the students, especially those coming from public schools, have difficulties in quantitative subjects due to deficiencies in their basic education. Also, from the student's point of view, except for the discipline called basic mathematics, the financial subjects of the undergraduate course in Business Administration at the Federal University of Sergipe are adequate; and their contents are pertinent. Moreover, they can be excellent tools for implementing active teaching methodologies, aiming to increase the interaction between teachers and students in the classroom and reduce the existing gap between theory and practice in the academic and professional training of students.