Princípios neoliberais na política de expansão do Ensino Superior: as posições do ANDES SN e da ANDIFES sobre o REUNI

Abstract

The 1990s marked the context of the transformations in Brazilian higher education that came from the influences of international organizations, especially the World Bank, as a materializer of reforms coming from the Washington Consensus. With these ongoing changes, there has been an expansion of higher education in the private network and its depletion in the face-to face teaching model, a process of expansion in the public network was started in 2003 in the Restructuring of Federal Universities - REUNI, its main point of expression. The general objective of this research was to analyze the expansion of Brazilian higher education promoted by the REUNI and, specifically, its relationship with the World Bank and neoliberalism and, finally, how the National Union of Teachers of Higher Education Institutions - ANDES SN and the Association of Directors of Federal Institutions of Higher Education - ANDIFES. It is a bibliographical and documentary research that is justified by seeking to bring the theme of expansion from the perspective of social actors, a point of view still little explored on the subject in the Brazilian scenario. As results, we identified that there are neoliberal characteristics in the National Policy of Higher Education, among them, the free competition and flexibilization of labor relations that materialize in the process of expansion inaugurating a new Ethos in higher education. Regarding the social actors referred to above, their positions are antagonistic with regard to REUNI and its implications in the IFES.