Utilitarian, instrumental and customized: the configuration of the brazilian university in educational policies in a century (1920-2020)

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  • Giovanni Frizzo Universidade Federal de Pelotas

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https://doi.org/10.22409/pt354x98

Abstract

The objective of this text is to analyze the changes in Brazilian university conceptions that predominated in educational policies for Higher Education, since the first legislation on official universities, in 1920, until the present day. As a methodological instrument, we carried out an analysis of educational policy documents in which we listed the legislation (laws, decrees, provisional measures and others) that refer to universities and Higher Education that have been established since the beginning of the 20th century. We identified that the Brazilian university emerged with an oligarchic model, moving to a liberal conception and, subsequently, a training university for the market until the current university-business configuration. It is concluded that all university changes in the country had a subservient character to the dominant class, therefore utilitarian, instrumental and customized

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2026-08-27

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