Abstract

PEREZ CEDENO, Adriana María; CARABALLO RAMOS, Águeda María; MARTINEZ PEREZ, Lourdes Claret  and  MARCANO MOLANO, Cecilia del Valle. Significant experiences of social integration of university students by textual production of rap. Saber [online]. 2014, vol.26, n.3, pp.313-325. ISSN 1315-0162.

Universities are beginning to promote policies aimed at eliminating discrimination, promoting spaces for community, social and educational participation. Therefore, the incorporation of college students to their academic discourse community is encouraged, since they are young people with a particular history and complex social life, which are included in different ways into the educational system. The overall purpose is to assess the intercultural resource "rap" in the academic practice of textual compositions by new students in the Extensión Región Centro- Sur of the Universidad de Oriente. In this qualitative research, the content analysis is used to account for the experiences of eight key informants interviewed, students of Industrial Engineering or Systems Engineering. It is intended to understand the reasons for the behavior of these students, analyzing both the thematic as the overall quality of writing, the reality in which they arise, and how they express their living experiences. The findings indicate that, despite the difficulties in the writing of texts: a) students, in addition to reporting, are identified with this musical style, because its main purpose lies in provoking reactions, b) the strategy allows to cater a heterogeneous population academically and culturally, c) university students may recognize, as any artistic expression, musical text resulting from this interpretation, which has a social impact in a given group of persons. This strategy provides an opportunity to reflect on the process of integral development and deepens in the construction of a new model of society.

Keywords : Writing; discursive community; inclusion; rap; student academic.

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