The history of the Interdisciplinary Bachelor's Degree in Humanities in the process of expansion of federal public universities in Brazil

Abstract

This article analyzes the expansion process of the Brazilian public university, having as reference the experience of the Federal University of Vales do Jequitinhonha (UFVJM) and the conduction of the Interdisciplinary Bachelor in Humanities course, Campus JK. Diamantina, MG, Brazil. In it, the authors reflect on the educational challenges of interdisciplinarity and, above all, discuss the challenges of social inclusion as a condition for social democratization. The authors, former course coordinators, narrate the trajectories and the pedagogical practice lived with the social subjects who arrive at the university, black, non-hetero normative, low social class working men and women, the need for epistemic breaks and the importance of doing education as an act committed to social transformation. As an experience report, the text registers, describes, discusses the paths built and the obstacles of public education, free and socially referenced in a country that, historically, denies its people the social right to education. Nevertheless, they point to the multiple possibilities that 'dissident bodies' produce of knowledge, affection, knowledge when the dialogue between the university and those who arrive opens up as a methodological and pedagogical path, ensuring that differences can be recognized.