O papel da ABMES na definição das políticas públicas para educação superior no Brasil contemporâneo

Abstract

In the 1990s, it intensified a complex expansion of Brazilian higher education, through the strong performance of the business school, who organized themselves in associations in order to secure their interests in the state system. This operation was consolidated in the first decade of the 2000s and was due in large part to the Brazilian Association of Maintainers of Higher Education (ABMES), which is one of the entrepreneurs' associations better structured, with national coverage and with great power pressure . Based on these findings, we had to analyze the formulations and the propositions of ABMES for higher education, your joints to enable your project and the impact of its intervention in policies for higher education in times of Fernando Henrique Cardoso (1995-1998 and 1999-2002) and Lula da Silva (20032006 and 2007-2010). This research is characterized as a documentary research whose corpus is composed of publications and documents prepared by ABMES since its inception in 1982 until the year 2010. The analysis of the documentary corpus was based on three categories (state's role, human formation and configuration of higher education). The centerpiece is the Gramscian theory of expanded state and Poulantzas's theory of relational State. The epistemological approach underlying the research is the dialectical historical materialism. With the analysis of the documentary corpus, we realize that ABMES passed through three phases throughout its existence (implementation, development and consolidation). For ABMES, the state should encourage the offering of education-commodity, and actions of minimal regulation, not intervene in the education market. The human development should be geared strictly to the demands of the labor market, not worrying about the cultural elevation of their students. The setting of higher education should allow the coexistence of diverse types of institutions and courses to further meet the demands of the students. We conclude that, with cohesive actions and wellarticulated strategies, higher education entrepreneurship through ABMES, could set the tone of national politics of higher education during the periods studied government.