A motiva????o de estudantes de 40 anos e acima: um estudo em uma IES particular do Distrito Federal

• Ano de defesa: 2017
• Autor(a) principal: Campos, Rosam??lia Otoni Pimenta
• Orientador(a): Vasconcelos, Ivar C??sar Oliveira de
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Cat??lica de Bras??lia
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa Strictu Sensu em Educa????o
• Departamento: Escola de Educa????o, Tecnologia e Comunica????o
• País: Brasil
• Palavras-chave em Português: Motiva????o; Estudantes; Educa????o superior; Educa????o de adultos
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CIENCIAS HUMANAS::EDUCACAO
• Resumo em Inglês: The literature reveals that developing Countries like Brazil are getting older. Brazil is experiencing a change on its population age and in a few years, the oldest people will be the majority facing kids group with 1-14 years old. The development of the medical, physical and biological sciences and the technologies mainly have been possible for people to get more opportunities, to feel healthier and look for better social life moments, inclusive to frequent a Higher Education Institution. Observing these groups of middle age and older people, this researcher have analyzed the Motivations and Demotivation of the Higher Education students aged 40 years old and above in all graduation courses in a private Higher Education Institution of The Federal District, Bras??lia, Brazil. It was used a mixed method research of exploratory character and a comparative-descriptive design survey. It was first characterized the participants??? sociodemographic profile and after that it was analyzed the students Extrinsic/Intrinsic Motivations and Demotivation based on the Autodetermination Theory in all courses of the private Higher Education Institution and it was made an analysis of these Motivations in two courses that have had more inscribed students with 40 years old and above. The instruments used in this research were: 1- Academic Motivation Scale; 2- Survey questionnaire of the participants to the Higher Education Institution Principal; 3- Participants??? characterization questionnaire. The electronic instrument Google Docs was utilized for data collect. The population of the participants had 113 (30%) volunteers with ages between 40 and 59 years old. The results have showed that these students have low wage income, 50% have some type of scholarship, the most of them are married, study in night shift and they have been out of Higher Education Institution for 1 to 30 years. They prefer the courses of Law, Psychology, Social Service and Physical Education. But the greater quantity of the students with 60 years and above is in the Law School and they have not participated of the research, because they have not volunteered to answer the questionnaires. It was verified the ???Intrinsic Motivation to know (to learn)???, like the most important Motivation that move these masculine and feminine students to do a graduation course. Psychology and Social Service are the courses with the most students. These two courses have showed great Intrinsic Motivation. The Psychology course students have more Intrinsic Motivation to know and the ones of Social Service, Intrinsic Motivation to Achieve Things.
• Link de acesso: https://bdtd.ucb.br:8443/jspui/handle/tede/2117

The literature reveals that developing Countries like Brazil are getting older. Brazil is experiencing a change on its population age and in a few years, the oldest people will be the majority facing kids group with 1-14 years old. The development of the medical, physical and biological sciences and the technologies mainly have been possible for people to get more opportunities, to feel healthier and look for better social life moments, inclusive to frequent a Higher Education Institution. Observing these groups of middle age and older people, this researcher have analyzed the Motivations and Demotivation of the Higher Education students aged 40 years old and above in all graduation courses in a private Higher Education Institution of The Federal District, Bras??lia, Brazil. It was used a mixed method research of exploratory character and a comparative-descriptive design survey. It was first characterized the participants??? sociodemographic profile and after that it was analyzed the students Extrinsic/Intrinsic Motivations and Demotivation based on the Autodetermination Theory in all courses of the private Higher Education Institution and it was made an analysis of these Motivations in two courses that have had more inscribed students with 40 years old and above. The instruments used in this research were: 1- Academic Motivation Scale; 2- Survey questionnaire of the participants to the Higher Education Institution Principal; 3- Participants??? characterization questionnaire. The electronic instrument Google Docs was utilized for data collect. The population of the participants had 113 (30%) volunteers with ages between 40 and 59 years old. The results have showed that these students have low wage income, 50% have some type of scholarship, the most of them are married, study in night shift and they have been out of Higher Education Institution for 1 to 30 years. They prefer the courses of Law, Psychology, Social Service and Physical Education. But the greater quantity of the students with 60 years and above is in the Law School and they have not participated of the research, because they have not volunteered to answer the questionnaires. It was verified the ???Intrinsic Motivation to know (to learn)???, like the most important Motivation that move these masculine and feminine students to do a graduation course. Psychology and Social Service are the courses with the most students. These two courses have showed great Intrinsic Motivation. The Psychology course students have more Intrinsic Motivation to know and the ones of Social Service, Intrinsic Motivation to Achieve Things.