City, university and professors’ perceptions in the context of tertiary education expansion in the countryside of Ceará state

Abstract

This paper aims to discuss the city/university relationship from the perspective of expansion process and implementation of public tertiary education institutions in the countryside of Ceará State (Brazil). This is a qualitative research that privileges narrative approaches about the professors’ journeys, investigating how they perceive and establish relationships with their workplace. Interviews were carried out with Centres’ directors and 49 professors (27 male and 22 female) in all the campuses in which there are public (federal or state) universities, faculties, classroom courses in Ceará State. Based on this material, it was possible to verify that there are several difficulties expressed by the professors related to their awareness and sense of belonging to their workplace the process of implementation of tertiary education in the countryside should be performed also considering the subjective aspects of the individuals that are part of these institutions; the structural difficulties of the cities and the way the professors perceive them, feel and identify themselves with these cities may interfere in the conditions and organization of their work.

Keywords

• Ensino Superior
• Expansão e Interiorização
• Cidade e Universidade
• Trabalho Docente