A universidade no contexto de avanço da instrumentalidade: o trabalho educativo em questão

Abstract

The university as an institution acts on and in the society in which it operates, so that the sociocultural transformations that have occurred throughout human history reverberate in its trajectory. Over the course of eight centuries of its existence, the university has undergone modifications to meet the challenges of each historical period. The clashes and conflicts that make up his memory emerge from his persistence to preserve their meaning and nature, essentially alluding to the idea of human formation. Especially in contemporary times, deeply marked by a technical rationality imposed by the capitalist mode of production and its ideological framework, it finds itself subjected by this new reason that reaches all instances of social life. In this context, neoliberal ideas impose economic parameters typical of the market on the educational system. Education and its institutions must function as a company, prioritizing profit, efficiency, workforce training and competitiveness. In an attempt to reveal the consequences of this direction in the area of education, the research The university in the context of advancing instrumentality: the educational work in question, linked to Research Line 2, Culture, School and Training, of the master's degree in Education of the Postgraduate Program in Education at the State University of Goiás (PPGE-UEG/Inhumas), calls into question the university, training and educational work. The research is anchored in authors such as Marilena Chaui (1978, 2001, 2003, 2016), Ildeu Moreira Coêlho (1986, 2004, 2011, 2012, 2016) Luis Antônio Cunha (2007), Pierre Dardot; Christian Laval (2016), Werner Jaeger (2013), Mário Luiz Neves de Azevedo (2021), Hélgio Trindade (2000, 2001), Antônio Joaquim Severino (2001), among others. From the studies carried out in this work, it is recognized that education in general has seen itself distanced from its meaning and provoked to assume instrumentality as the foundation and direction of its existence, which is why the movement of thought must remember its nature and meaning, in order to resist particular interferences, since it is configured as a social right that, historicity demonstrates, conquered through struggles and the awareness that it is a means of transcending the established with a view to the formation and confirmation of man's humanity.