Abstract
The text of this essay comes from the writing of the academic memorial prepared to meet the norms and internal procedures of the Federal University of São Carlos - UFSCar in the accomplishment of the public contest for promotion to class E - Full Professor of the Career of the Higher Magisterium of the Department of Occupational Therapy of UFSCar. I understood the moment of writing the memorial as an opportunity to express the singularity of my journey and I seek to socialize it here. I dedicated my writing to the people with whom I live and lived through the meaningful interactions that enabled my engagement in academic life. I understand this essay as an opportunity to divulge a personal narrative that is fruit of introspection, reflection, recovery, and recording of facts, composition of a bank of memories about my personal experience, recognition of advances and difficulties in the dialogue with the scientific field, thanks to the people, but above all, the resignification of my academic trajectory, at this moment with more than 30 years at UFSCar. I chose to elaborate this record based on personal and academic experiences through associations of the aspects of family life with the choice of profession, of the formative processes with the course of the professional life and of the resignification of the academic experiences.
Keywords:
University; Occupational Therapy; Teaching; Research; Extension; Management