Student's craft in Library Science: a case report

RELATO DE EXPERIÊNCIA DA DISCIPLINA INTRODUÇÃO À VIDA UNIVERSITÁRIA DA UFF

Abstract

This paper presents a case report on the mandatory course "Introduction to University Life," taught in the first semester of 2026 for the Librarianship and Documentation program at the Fluminense Federal University. The objective of the study is to report the experience of the course development, demonstrating how its pedagogical practices act as markers of affiliation in the construction of the student's craft, promoting the pedagogy of affiliation in light of Alain Coulon's theory. Methodologically, the research is characterized as a qualitative case report, based on the documentary analysis of the teaching plan and the mapping of the proposed activities. The results demonstrate that the adopted pedagogical practices function as markers of affiliation. It is concluded that the course design converges directly toward the consolidation of the student's habitus, allowing for the overcoming of the time of strangeness and the progressive mastery of institutional and intellectual rules, confirming the viability of a pedagogy of affiliation in the training of information professionals.