THE POLICY SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATION (STI) AND THE INTENSIFICATION OF WORK IN THE FEDERAL INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION: THE (IM) PRODUCTIVITY OF TEACHING WORK IN DEBATE
Policies of Higher Education; Science, Technology and Innovation (STI); Postgraduate studies; Intensification of teaching work
The present research had the objective of investigating the links between the Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) policy and the process of intensification of teaching work in the Federal Institutions of Higher Education. We start from the assumption that the intensification of the teaching work can’t be explained by itself, but rather from the stage of development of the productive forces and the relations of production in the Brazilian social formation, by means of broader relations, that determine the changes in the policies for public higher education, backed by the disputes of projects of professional formation, science and technology. Thus, it becomes important to verify how the relations between the productive structure, the social classes and the Brazilian State, established in international capitalism in a dependent manner. From the analysis of policies for higher education and STI implemented in the governments of Fernando Henrique Cardoso and the PT governments (especially the Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva government), we defend the thesis that the root of the intensification of the teaching work is in the policies of science, technology and innovation, especially, from its financing, management (by the delimitation of strategic areas of research) and control of the teaching work (through evaluation of postgraduate programs, with greater weight in the intellectual production capacity of teachers). From the point of view of the project behind the policies, we pointed out that there were no ruptures in the PT government with the international technical-scientific dependence and the privatization of higher education, as a consequence, there was no national sovereignty project to guide such policies, but rather a continuity in the project of Reform of the State in neoliberal molds, initiated in a more organic way in the Fernando Henrique Cardoso government.