| dc.description.abstract | The demands of the current job market have led to a culture of efficiency and
productivity, which require from universities an excessive attention to the intellectual
capacity of the student. However, there are institutions that were not intimidated by
this new scenario; among them, Catholic Higher Education Institutions (CHEIs) that,
due to their religious nature, seek to keep their pedagogical-Christian mission alive
with the purpose of offering integral training to its students considering, in addition to
their intellectual dimension, the moral, spiritual, and religious ones, awakening in
them a humanistic essence. Nevertheless, the present scenarios have revealed
many challenges to carry out a mission of this nature, leading to the question of
whether this purpose still makes sense. Following the trajectory of Church´s
relationship with the education of Antiquity until nowadays and deepening the
studies on the mission of ( CHEIs) and the challenges faced by these institutions, it
was possible to elaborate the thesis that the students surveyed perceive the
pedagogical-Christian mission of their Catholic Higher Education Institution, as well
as accept this mission for the present day, which would confirm that it makes sense
to maintain a mission such as the one proposed by the CHEIs.Thus, as a way of
contributing to this discussion, this study aimed to learn about the perception and
acceptance of students from Catholic Higher Education Institutions regarding the
pedagogical-Christian mission of their institution today. The work is constituted of the
introduction and the following four chapters being three the form the theoric
framework with quotes of authors in the field of education as Manacorda, Luzuriaga
and Nunes,in addition to others who study the mission of CHEIs as Miranda and
Juliatto. The study is characterized as exploratory-descriptive and was carried out
with 302 students from three CHEIs in Recife. The results of the research confirm the
thesis proposed above and feed the hope that, even in the face of a culture of
materialism, it is possible to promote the integral development of students, a quality
so necessary in contemporary society. | eng |
