CONCEPÇÕES DE UNIVERSIDADE NO BRASIL: UMA ANÁLISE A PARTIR DA MISSÃO DAS UNIVERSIDADES PÚBLICAS FEDERAIS BRASILEIRAS E DOS MODELOS DE UNIVERSIDADE

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to perform an association between the main dimensions that characterize the mission of Brazilian public universities with the central concepts that define the university models. Procedures for collecting and qualitative data analysis were used from secondary data, in other words, existing in the literature. Were analyzed missions from eight Brazilian federal public universities available in full in Ferreira (2009). Content analysis procedures were performed identifying representative categories and subcategories of the most central ideas in the text. To make the association between the mission, the profile of graduates and the university model, we considered the similarity of ideas between the central characteristics of university models (Humboldtian, Napoleonic and American) and subcategories identified in the content analysis of the mission. It was established that the Brazilian public universities present a hybrid model that combines both the characteristics that define it as a center of construction of critical and pure knowledge, free of external pressures such as those involving the training of professionals prepared to work in the market and designed to meet specific demands of society.

Keywords

• university conceptions
• public universities missions
• university management