A autonomia universitária nos anos 90 e o contexto de debates acerca do ensino superior brasileiro

Abstract

This current work aimed as its primary objective to identify the concepts of university autonomy of social actors engaged in its process, and how these concepts influenced the implementation of policies for higher education throughout the 90’s. The discussions concerning university autonomy, in Brazil, precede the actual creation of the first Brazilian university. This debate strengthens after the promulgation of the 1988 Constitution, because until then only the higher education ordinary laws had been addressed the subject. It is after Fernando Henrique Cardoso government that these discussions stir up and are sustained throughout Lula da Silva government. Due to the permanent confrontation of power between State and University, the autonomy transcends the doctrine field and stands itself as a political or ideological matter, common in clashes of pursuit of power. The social actors engaged in this process are considered as very important, as well as what they think about the subject and what they consider as autonomy concept. And due to the different conceptions and, many of the times, deviated perspectives is that this debate happens so instigated and the lack of consensus created by it can end up hindering the implementation of autonomy in our universities. In order of the accomplishment of this work, it was done a bibliographic and documentary research, with a qualitative approach. The research time frame are the eight years corresponding Fernando Henrique Cardoso government. This research was done through the analysis of the autonomy conceptions of the following authors: NUPES, ANDES-SN, FASUBRA, ANDIFES, and UNE, seeking to understand how these influenced the decision-making concerning the Brazilian higher education in the 90’s.