Pólo universitário de Palmeiras de Goiás: concretização das políticas educacionais da UEG

Abstract

This dissertation intends to study the Pólo Universitário da Universidade Estadual de Goiás de Palmeiras de Goiás and it also intends to make a qualitative analysis of the positive and negative results of the higher education expansion. This study was made through the dialectic method, analyzing the contradictions through a qualitative perspective. The theoretical part of this paper was based on relevant authors such as Gramsci, Foucault, Enguita, Brzezinski and others. The techniques and procedures used in this research were: bibliographical and documental comprehensive survey; semi-structured interviews and detailed questionnaires. The answers and the information collected are quoted directly and, when possible, these pieces of information were transformed into graphs and tables. These facts are presented along the researcher s comments and analyses. The first part of this paper describes the methodology and techniques used. Next, it explores the relevant national and international documents trying to form a qualitative representation of the public education policies for the higher education system in Brazil during the two final decades of the 20th century. There is a documental survey of Brazil s public educational investment policies in the last two decades. It also studies the political role of international agencies, in especially the World Bank, which has been highly influential on Brazil s political actions that have allowed the higher education private system expansion. In the third part, this study concentrates on the history, structures, roles and expansion of the UEG. The government of the state of Goiás, in 1999, founded a multicampi public higher education institution: The Universidade Estadual de Goiás-UEG. It has expanded and installed several campi in different towns of the state. The campus of Palmeiras de Goiás is one of these campi. Finally, this paper surveys, and seeks to identify, analyze and discuss the positive and negative results of the installation of a higher education institution in the country town of Palmeiras de Goiás. It also seeks to identify the social, economical and educational levels of the participants in the research. It presents the history of this teachers´ formation institution and indicates the identified results of its activity.