A GESTÃO NA UNIVERSIDADE ELEMENTOS PARA UMA CRÍTICA COM BASE NA TEORIA DA ATIVIDADE

Abstract

Leaving of the presupposition that the human work that takes place a school institution has the center the individuals' education, seeking his/her formation and transformation, this work should be organized so that the different elements and dimensions that compose are him united around the educational purposes. In that sense, one of the essential elements is the administration. It is verified that the studies that treat of the school administration have if gone back to the basic teaching and, with smaller frequency, for the higher education. Studies returned to the university have been giving little emphasis to the administration in the university, revealing the need of more studies concerning this theme. Starting from the study of the theory of the activity formulated by A. N. Leontiev, that explains the general structure of the human activity, it was noticed his/her potential to enrich the analysis of the administration in the university. This research search to investigate the administration in the university starting from the following subject: how can the academical administration are characterized in an understanding based in the theory of the activity? His/her relevance is evidenced by the own shortage of studies concerning the theme and also for offering an analysis based on concepts of the theory of the activity, contributing to better understanding of the academical administration as a system of activities and for larger valorization of the dimension of the administration of the higher education. It was made a bibliographical research concerning the theme, the deepened study of the theory of the activity being looked for a possibility of characterization of the administration in the university. The theoretical foudation was looked for mainly in A. N. Leontiev and Y. Engeström. The general objective of the research was to characterize the administration in the university as a system of activities. The main results of the research reveal that: the brazilian universities, especially the public ones, still today use of the rational and bureaucratic administration model business, whose beginnings are guided for the obtaining of quantitative income and efficiency of the universities in the preparation of exits for the job market in a capitalist perspective; being considered the bureaucratic administration model of the universities and the System of Activity proposed by Engeström, it is had inside of the university a system of simultaneous and interlinked activities that you/they intersect to reach certain results, however the contradiction of this model does with that he/she gets lost his/her own administration essence, once the activities separate inside from the university according to specific departments, putting the subjects in work actions in conditions that isolate them some of the other ones and of the common objectives.