Planejamento, gestão democrática e integração regional : sobre a estratégia acadêmica e compromisso político do modelo comunitário de instituições universitárias no RS.

Abstract

The thesis focuses on comparative discursive mechanisms that explain the guidelines of the management of 3 academic institutions called Communitarians universities, through its PDIs, (Plan for Institutional Development) and other official documents organizers of institutional strategy in their regional integration. The reading of documentary combined with the testimony of agents involved in the reality of these institutions, contextualizes this production. The starting point was based on conceptual categories worked by K. Mannheim in their works "Freedom, power and democratic planning" and "Ideology and Utopia," where we highlight three key themes for this study: on one hand, the emphasis on belief in the role of higher education for the development of free societies, on the other, the design of an intelligentsia "socially disconnected" and, finally, the tensions between democracy and freedom in a planned society. The questions raised by Mannheim in postwar are powered in the analysis of global society based on discourses and social practices of market ideology. One wonders, therefore, how the idea of linking democracy, planning and institutional influence can be disinterested and must therefore be questioned about the possibilities of its realization and its modes of operation against a backdrop of continuing threats to democracy and social autonomy, a field between ideology and Utopia in Mannheim. The concepts and arguments raised by the author strength the theoretical power analysis of the institutional study. The framework seeks to combine the set of characteristics defined as specific of communitarian educational institutions - private institution with public character, supported by an vague communitarian ideal, mainly of the regional community of origin, with the necessary coping with practical situations to work effectively in a increasingly competitive market field of relations, threatening their reproduction by the absence of a special legal status. By incorporating rationalities aimed to survive in the market for higher education, internal and external relations of these IES reveal a number of contradictory aspects that pervades the relationship between discourse and practice of ideological elements of the institutional foundations for support. In this historical trajectory states the discursive production of the founding myth as leverage, in which cross and face permanently the dilemma between democratic management, community spirit, public action and the sharp razor of leading market relations.