Segregações no curso de licenciatura em matemática na perspectiva do modelo de segregação de Thomas Schelling.

Abstract

The aim of this research was to detect out how to segregate a degree course in mathematics according to studies, to win the 2005 Nobel Prize in Economics, Thomas Crombie Schelling. Specifically, the mathematical saber of the dynamic segregation models created by Schelling in 1971. A qualitative approach work, developed according to the case study methodology, with analysis based on the Agent Based Modeling, which uses NetLogo software to create model simulations. This was one of the research instruments for data production, or another was the application of a questionnaire composed of 15 questions designed to extract information about the academics. They were subjected to 216 students, who returned 45 answers. It emerged from the answers that academics are mostly low-class, mulattos, scattered mainly between the left and center political stance, and who avoid the mainstream of family problems and scholarship or study cuts. The simulations were found to be conditions for separation in the course, not intolerance, as we hypothesized, but it was found that there was segregation when the academics were reasonably reasonable or very tolerant, as refuted. All objectives of this work were achieved and a research question was answered.