A política de acreditação para a educação superior: mudanças no início do século XXI

Abstract

The object of study of this thesis is the national accreditation policy for graduation and the process that defined it between 2000 and 2014. Analyzing the processing of the policy imposed the need to classify the changes that may have occurred in the period, as well as to identify the roles played by a particular group of academics and their ideas. Most of the time, the changes that occurred were incremental. In 2004, however, a structural and procedural transformation was identified, which led to appreciation of some formative aspects in the formulation and implementation of the policy. In this case, some aspects inherited from the previous decade still persisted, around which the debate in the academy still mobilizes. It should be emphasized, however, that the production and entrepreneurship of the academics were external determinants relevant for the accentuation of the dialectic in the subsystem and for the generation of a new synthesis for the accreditation policy, approaching to the consolidation of the objectives defended by the academy. These analyzes were referenced in the work of Baumgartner and Jones (2009), which deals with the theory of punctuated equilibrium, and in the work of Haas (2016), which deals with the involvement of epistemic communities with public policy.