Caminski Ferreira

Indigenous students on stage Caminski Ferreira

This publication is part of the professional experience of the author, as a Social Worker at UFRGS, and through the Professional Master's in Social Memory and Cultural Assets, presents to readers the research-action whose goal was to unveil the collective memory of indigenous students in the process of inclusion in higher education, with regard to their access and permanence in the University Student House - CEU, UFRGS, to intervene in academic reality. The indigenous students at the UFRGS, who took part in the research, collectively produced a video that reveals their memories of the inclusion process at the UFRGS, the limits and possibilities of everyday academic life, issues relating to their access to and permanence in the university, and the changes they propose. The research has become an important strategy for the implementation of changes in the academic field with regard to the access and permanence of indigenous students at the UFRGS.