O Ensino de graduação na UNISC : contexto, referências e relatório de uma avaliação institucional interna.

Abstract

This study presents the results of an investigation carried out in 2000, centered in the internal evaluation of the Graduation courses of UNISC. Which focused on the performance and management of the courses, their disciplines, as well as the teaching and learning process. The systematization starts by pointing out the historical evolution of the Universities in the world and the development of the upper education in Brazil. An analysis of the policies and guidelines of the World Bank and their influence on the Brazilian upper education is also developed. The following paradigmatic references are presented: The World Declaration on Upper Education in the XXI century; The National Undergraduate Curriculum Guidelines; The Upper Education Evaluation System, and The National Under graduation Plan. The objective of this study was to evaluate the Graduation Courses at UNISC, specifically, their performance, subjects and people involved – academic managers, professors and students – with the objective of qualifying the activities and processes developed in the courses, under the theoretical references previously mentioned. The investigation envolved an Ethnographic study due to its interaction with the internal evaluation of graduation, guaranteeing a dynamic improvement in the process, i.e., proposed action - intervention - new proposal - new action - new evaluation. It is the journey of an unfinished process, a diagnosis of the ungraduation education pursuing scientific quality, both human and technical, producing ruptures and advances.