FROM AUTONOMY TO UNIVERSITY HETERONOMY: GUIDELINES FOR A NEW ORDINATION OF HIGHER EDUCATION

Abstract

Based on a bibliographic and documentary review, this article defends university autonomy as a necessary and unbreakable principle, especially in the current Brazilian national context in which the role of higher education has been questioned and university institutions attacked by obscurantist groups that have assumed, in 2019, public management positions. To this end, it rescues the meaning acquired by this principle in Brazilian legislation throughout the 20th century, locating it socially, politically and economically, seeking to demonstrate how, from the end of that century and in the first decades of the 21st century, heteronomy becomes to be a constitutive part of the reality of Brazilian higher education, producing its subservience to capital.