Discursos e práticas de higiene das estudantes usuárias em relação ás casas de banho da FLCS-UEM

Abstract

The bathrooms of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FLCS) of the Eduardo Mondlane University (UEM) raise different opinions with regard to the way they are presented and which determines their use or not by users and also in relation to their use. available for some materials considered important by them. The objective of this work is to understand the discourses and hygiene practices of the students who use the FLCS bathrooms, trying to analyze their perceptions and preconceptions against the backdrop of the FLCS bathrooms; understand, also, how they proceed in the bathrooms and, finally, try to understand the mechanisms and cleaning management by the employees. Data collection was carried out using observation techniques and culminated in semi-structured interviews. As an aid that facilitated the compilation of the work, I had field and cell diaries to record the interviews, as it would be difficult to take notes during the interview. These recordings were made with the permission of the people interviewed and later transferred to the computer in order to facilitate transcription. Finally, based on the phenomenological theory, it was possible to interpret the meanings and values ​​existing in the bathroom users in relation to hygiene. The users' interpretations of hygiene are mainly influenced by the preconceptions they carry about the definitions of dirty and clean (TRADUÇÃO NOSSA)