Methodology Applied in the Construction of the UNILA University Project

Abstract

This article aims to rebuild the pedagogical support for preparing a project for the Universidade Federal da Integração Latino-Americana and UNILA’s Implantation Commission, based on a methodology developed to accompany the different phases of structuring the key topics for the new university. The process required the participation of members of the Commission, with the aim of gradually structuring this joint development. The method of work was inspired on the Huberman and Miles model (1991) in which the gathering, treatment, presentation, interpretation and validation of data is done in a spiral process, and is simultaneous to the elaboration process. Following this method, the starting point in the group’s first meeting was a generating question that sought to identify the concept of an “ideal university” in generic terms. This exercise, performed individually by participants that began from a personal vision of what each one preliminarily thought of the UNILA, gave rise to a reflexive process that was fundamental for later stages.