A Efetivação da política de internacionalização na pós- graduação em educação (2013-2016)

Abstract

This thesis has as its object the internationalization of postgraduate studies in Education in the context of public assessment policies. The research problem was guided by the following question: What internationalization is being built and implemented in the field of Education from the induction of this policy by the postgraduate assessment system? It works with the thesis that the internationalization policy aimed at graduate studies embraces the conceptions of an evaluating State, that is based on the standardization of indicators, whose weight is concentrated on the qualified bibliographic production through bibliometric parameters, used as equivalent to the dimension of excellence. This policy of induction disregards the history, culture and practices of the set of postgraduate areas, which have processes that are distinct from internationalized production, such as Education. The objective is to analyze the effectiveness of the internationalization policy in the field of Education in the 2017 Quadrennial, through the induction of the postgraduate evaluation system. The research sample was limited to the three programs classified with grade 7 in the 2017 Quadrennial. It is proposed as methodological procedures the bibliographic research and documentary research. In the bibliographical research, a literature review of concepts, levels and approaches on academic internationalization is made, as well as the historical context in which it is constituted. The documental research aims to: 1) verify the configuration of this policy on the national public agenda through the National Education Plan (PNE), the documents National Strategy for Science, Technology and Innovation (2012, 2016) and of the National Postgraduate Plans (1975, 1982, 1986, 2004, 2010); 2) compare the internationalization indicators listed in the documents of the postgraduate knowledge areas in the Triennial 2010 and 2013 and Quadrennial 2017; 3) analyze the information filled in the Sucupira Platform by the programs selected for the research, to map the internationalization actions; 4) examine the evaluation forms of the programs in order to observe the criteria used by the evaluators when measuring the internationalization actions. The data allowed us to ascertain that the Education area has been following the movement driven by the induction of the evaluation system and gradually incorporating the internationalization indicators, but that these are below those presented by the postgraduate program as a whole. Although internationalization actions are not separated from economic motivations, due to funding linked to excellence, it can be said that the area has carried out its internationalization, primarily, for academic reasons through: qualified scientific production (periodicals A1 and A2 and books L4); projects and agreements with mutual cooperation activities, focusing on Sul-Sul relations; teaching activities abroad; reception of foreign professors in the program; and student mobility in and out. There was a divergence in the assessment process of what is an internationalized program, since there was no consensus between the evaluations of the Comissão de Área de Educação and the Conselho TécnicoCientífico da Educação Superior (CTC-ES) on the grade of one of the programs. By lowering the grade 7 awarded by the area committee to 6, the CTC does it based on data from scientific production published in international databases, translated into bibliometric indexes, suggesting that this is the standard prioritized by the postgraduate system. The programs that do not adapt, even if they have a consolidated internationalization policy, taking into account the other indicators used by the area, will not be considered programs of excellence. This fact also explains that, although there are indicators to define the expected internationalization, there are no criteria or weights defined for the set of these indicators, which ends up subjecting the evaluation process, punctuated by centralized decisions, involving all the areas and their analogical and dysphasic processes of internationalization.