Revista Gestão Universitária na América Latina (Jan 2014)
O PROCESSO DE GESTÃO DE DESENVOLVIMENTO DO ESPAÇO PÚBLICO NA UNIVERSIDADE: UMA PRÁTICA EDUCATIVA E SOCIAL
Abstract
The following article aims to discuss about the pu blic space development in the Federal University, as a social and educative practice. This study starts at the results of a research realized at the Santa Catarina`s Federal University (UFSC), about the degree solemnities being realized with public resourc es (RAMOS, 2012). Beginning in the 90`s, the degrees ceremonies of UFSC were privatized, but in 2004, rescued to it`s public assets. From the research results, was possible to see strong evidences that the public degree ceremony is involved by surrounding environment that directly reflects in it`s public character, isonomic and democratic. This way, the university constitute itself in a process that is always changing, contributing for de organization or for the disorganization of the public space and the i dentity of the University as social institution. The University is a complex institution known by its inner and outer community diversity. Allied to that, the relations that manifests in your daily duty, before the educational public politics, makes the d egree ceremony as a social and educative practice, of organization and public space development, demands actions to solidify the University as a social institution.
