Abstract
The research is financed by CAPES through the notice 047/2017 Abstract This article is a contribution to the debate about the public university in Brazil and its political confrontations. The objective was to reflect on the role of the public university as a social institution in opposition to the proposal of its transformation into a service provider organization. The importance of this discussion is to present which political project is being proposed by the Brazilian government, how it transforms the link between the university and Brazilian society and what the consequences are. Its importance also lies in pointing out what are the possibilities of resistance of public universities. The argumentation was based on qualitative analysis of documents and bibliographic research. The study is structured in four parts; introductory discussion on the historical-social construction of the public university in Brazil; reflection on its function and social responsibility; presentation of the contemporary scenario of disorganization of the public university as a social institution; and, finally, the possibilities of resistance. Keywords: Brazilian Public University, Social Responsibility, Social institution, Service Provider Organization DOI: 10.7176/RHSS/10-24-01 Publication date: December 31 st 2020
Highlights
To discuss the public university in Brazil in the current scenario of suffocating budget cuts and disqualification of its efficiency, resuming the elements that mark its emergence is necessary, even if in an introductory way
Many arguments could be evoked to defend this regression, but one argument stands out as structuring to the proposed discussion, which is to explain that the public university, heir to the revolutions that delimit modernity, is a construction “in” and “of” the history of Brazilian social formation (CHAUÍ, 2003)
The university is made in history, at the same time that as a singular social institution, it can interfere, influence, and historically rearrange the same social relations and, it cannot be thought of from a reductionist operational perspective
Summary
To discuss the public university in Brazil in the current scenario of suffocating budget cuts and disqualification of its efficiency, resuming the elements that mark its emergence is necessary, even if in an introductory way. The state, as an organized arena of political disputes (POULANTZAS, 1978: 124) has in the university an important force of formation of people, production of knowledge and values, which are fundamental for social development.
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