Educação a distância entre fronteiras: cursos de graduação à distância brasileiros em Moçambique e a internacionalização da educação

Abstract

This thesis proposes an analysis of the contemporary context of internationalization of higher education through an International Cooperation Program in the area of Education, between Brazil and Mozambique. In a context of globalization that has a decisive influence in all sectors of social life of individuals, their impact on the educational process of higher education is the motivation of the comments submitted here. Meant to make a connection between the growing demand for professional and academic formation and the accelerated development of courses in distance mode, we study the ability to conjugate these characteristics in an International Cooperation Program that can attend effectively the needs of specific area or public. The object of this work is the implementation process of the courses to Support Expansion of Higher Distance Education Program from the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / UniversidadeAberta do Brasil (UAB) in Republic of Mozambique, from documental analysis and semi-structured interviews. Questioning specifically what the potential of these Brazilian government cooperation initiatives, now active agent in international cooperation, the research objective is precisely to analyze the implementation process of the program, from a focus connected to the internationalization of education, to understand the context this implementation through the concept and subjacent cooperation practices to relations between the partners. From initial notes of the data collected, the work tends to be a guide to the difficulties of effectively thinking of a collaborative proposal, as guides Boaventura de Souza Santos, take the construction of a multi university knowledge.