| dc.description.abstract | The present work aims to analyze the possible contributions of educational
volunteering that takes place at Colégio Santo Inácio/RJ, which is part of the Jesuit
Education Network (RJE) in Brazil, for processes of integral formation and lifelong
education, recognized by the students who participated in it and pedagogical
managers, and how these could help to improve the management of the program. To
this end, the path taken was based on a qualitative approach, where data collection
was carried out entirely online, due to the pandemic context of social isolation (Covid19) and was composed of three stages: online questionnaire for students, synchronous
online focus group and online questionnaire for College managers (sent by email). The
collected data were analyzed using the thematic content analysis technique, which
allowed two final categories to be found: compassion (which opens the way for
solidarity) and commitment (for the promotion of justice). For students and managers,
these were the aspects and effects that stood out when reflecting on educational
volunteering in the perspective of integral formation and education for life. Through the
research carried out, it was possible to verify the importance of educational
volunteering for the process of training students for the human excellence desired in
Ignatian education, illustrated by the 4 C's: being conscious, competent,
compassionate and committed. Educational volunteering has shown the potential to
stimulate the latter two, according to experiences shared by both students and
managers. Such reports also led to an intervention proposal that further involves
educational volunteering in the institution's curriculum, in addition to emphasizing the
need to reach other students who do not participate. The title of this work summarizes
what throughout the research stood out as one of the great training opportunities
contained in educational volunteering: the experience of being with others. | en |
