AVALIAÇÃO DA EDUCAÇÃO SUPERIOR: REPERCUSSÕES NO PROJETO POLÍTICO-PEDAGÓGICO DO CURSO DE PEDAGOGIA DA UniEVANGÉLICA

Abstract

Many scholars have emphasized the relevance of the political-pedagogic project and institutional evaluation for educational management, targeting the quality of higher education. Several studies also indicate that, the neoliberal educational policies have used these instruments as strategic control mechanisms. Moreover it is necessary to identify how and to what extent evaluative governmental policies have changed the political-pedagogic projects of degree courses. These questions guided the development of this research in order to examine whether the standards and evaluation mechanisms established by the Brazilian educational policies have caused changes in the political-pedagogical project of UniEVANGÉLICA s Pedagogy course. Thus, this research, of a qualitative nature, based on the dialectical method, aims to identify, discuss and analyze the relationship between the evaluation of Higher Education and the political-pedagogic project of the course and contribute to the discussion on the autonomy of Higher Education Institutions and quality of degree courses. It was verified, by the research, that the institutional evaluation has been the main instrument for outbreak changes in the political-pedagogical project of the Pedagogy course, having the regulation as their driving force. Among the regulatory mechanisms used to evaluate the course, the most influence, directly and indirectly, are the external evaluation, the Enade and the National Curriculum Guidelines. It was also identified that, despite the centralizer and regulatory tendencies, the educational actors have been heard and have achieved some progress in the development of emancipatory education. The pressure of the market in the course and daily life of informants is very oppressive. The main influence was the contraction of the course duration from four to three years, which produces deficiencies and affects the course quality. It was shown, therefore, the strong influence of the processes and evaluation mechanisms of governmental policies in the PPP of this course, as well as the tense relationship between regulation and emancipation. The alternative proposed here for the balance between regulation and emancipation is the possibility of regulation, by means of the evaluation be, in fact, built by all, in a dialogical and democratic process, with the possibility to accomplish the communicative action theorized by Habermas (1975 , 1987, 1993, 1997) and the theory of the emerging paradigm of Santos (1997, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005) assumed in this work because it values the effective participation of educational actors for new ways of building a political-pedagogic project, structuring the curriculum and new methodologies, once it preconizes new ways to acquire, produce and distribute the knowledge that takes into consideration the different ways of knowing and the different cultures.