Políticas e expansão da pós-graduação stricto sensu nas universidades federais em Mato Grosso do Sul (2003-2016): uma análise das condições materiais e simbólicas

Abstract

This thesis has as its object of study the expansion of postgraduate studies in the federal universities of Mato Grosso do Sul from 2003 to 2016. Due to the period covered and the locus of research, the Federal University Expansion programs were considered. (Ex pandir) and Restructuring and Expansion of Federal Universities (Reuni) as privileged of analysis. The following issue guided the research: How have programs such as Reuni and Expandir, in despite of its focus being on undergraduate expansion, contributed to postgraduate expansion at federal universities in MS? What material and symbolic conditions that gave support / induced postgraduate expansion in these IES? The general objective of the research consists on to analyze the expansion of postgraduate programs in the federal universities of Mato Grosso do Sul State in the context of public policies aimed at the expansion of higher education, implemented in these institutions from 2003 to 2016. The study was conducted. in the light of the area‟s literature, based on official documents and statistics. The analyzes were made from the notions of field, habitus and capital, developed by the french sociologist Pierre Bourdieu. As a result, it was found that the significant expansion of postgraduate studies at federal universities in MS - more than 200% in the number of postgraduate programs and 400% in the number of enrollments and degrees – were obtained by the combination of government policies inducers of the expansion of higher education, induction actions by university managers and the teaching action itself. During this period, the Expandir and Reuni programs provided some recovery of federal universities, especially regarding the number of teachers. The increase in the number of exclusively dedicated teaching functions at the Mato Grosso do Sul Federal universities was over 120% in the period. In turn, the action of the managers of these IES was oriented to attract teachers with postgraduate profile and to maintain this habitus in universities. The intention in order to maintain a favorable environment for research through postgraduate studies is expressed in regulations, public notices and official documents of the IES, which observe the adequacy to meet the items highlighted by the CAPES evaluation. There is also, and especially, the teaching commitment to a postgraduate expansion project in its IES. This seeks to direct its actions to meet CAPES evaluative requirements in order to remain in the postgraduate field. This is explained by the significant teaching insertion in research grants, consultancy activities, increased intellectual production in qualified journals in the Qualis / CAPES strates. In this sense, the Thesis outlined by the present research is that the expansion of postgraduate studies in MS was induced from central government policies at the intersection with the university field. The policies that provided the increasing teaching staff of federal universities, had their main effects on postgraduate expansion. However, the data show that postgraduate field agents from federal universities in MS cannot consolidate the qualitative expansion by not accessing the authority spaces of the field. This is as much in terms of external instances of power - low participation in CAPES committees - as in terms of intellectual prestige - low participation in dissertation / thesis defense boards linked to other IES postgraduate programs and lower concentration of article production in journals classified in the larger strates of Qualis. This is a reflection of SNPG's asymmetries, deepened based on the CAPES evaluation model. Therefore, there remains a need to think of an evaluation process that will continue to ensure credibility to the SNPG, while being more equitable, socially referenced. And that the complexity of the quantitative expansion extended to the entire national territory can be contemplated by this qualitative expansion.