This article aims to give an account, from the development of two main
theoretical categories, the importance of student practices in higher education,
assumed as a transforming power and constructor of peace culture that
is sometimes hidden in academic purposes, but also flourishes as a social experience. One of the contributions of student practices, is the generation of constant dialogues between the disciplinary knowledge and the real contexts of the
territories in which they develop, besides making evident the contribution that
higher education makes to build fair and peaceful forms of coexistence.

This article aims to give an account, from the development of two main
theoretical categories, the importance of student practices in higher education,
assumed as a transforming power and constructor of peace culture that
is sometimes hidden in academic purposes, but also flourishes as a social experience. One of the contributions of student practices, is the generation of constant dialogues between the disciplinary knowledge and the real contexts of the
territories in which they develop, besides making evident the contribution that
higher education makes to build fair and peaceful forms of coexistence.