AS INSTITUIÇÕES FEDERAIS DE ENSINO SUPERIOR – IFES NO BRASIL: FUNÇÃO SOCIAL E SUBORDINAÇÃO AO SISTEMA DO CAPITAL
AS INSTITUIÇÕES FEDERAIS DE ENSINO SUPERIOR – IFES NO BRASIL: FUNÇÃO SOCIAL E SUBORDINAÇÃO AO SISTEMA DO CAPITAL
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.22533/at.ed.2872503091
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Palavras-chave: Crise Estrutura do Capital. Ensino Superior Público. Neoliberalismo. Formação de Mão de Obra. Reestruturação Produtiva.
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Keywords: Capital Structure Crisis. Public Higher Education. Neoliberalism. Manpower Training. Productive Restructuring.
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Abstract: This study analyzes the role of Federal Institutions of Higher Education (IFES) in Brazil, considering its historical and functional insertion in the context of the structural crisis of capital. University education in the country, started late compared to other nations, was gradually expanded through federal universities, state and federal institutes. However, throughout their development, these institutions were shaped according to the requirements of capital, assuming a utilitarian character and subordinated to the demands of the market. The research, with a qualitative approach and based on the historical-dialectical materialist method, used bibliographical review to understand how IFES, under neoliberal hegemony, privilege technical and scientific training to the detriment of integral human training. The study shows that, in the face of financialization, productive restructuring and the advance of neoliberalism since the 1970s, higher education has been directed to employability, productivity and legitimization of the current order. In this scenario, public policies such as REUNI (2007), although presented under the discourse of democratization, strengthened the link between universities and the needs of the capital system by expanding vacancies and courses in strategic areas for the market, without necessarily guaranteeing a critical and emancipatory training. It is concluded that the IFES, by aligning themselves structurally to the logic of value appreciation, fulfill a strategic role in the reproduction of social inequalities, functioning as gears of the system. Overcoming this condition requires breaking with the subordination to capital and putting back in the center of the university project full, critical and socially referenced human formation.
- Edí Carlos Rebouças de Oliveira
- Maria José Nunes Nepomuceno