Expansão da rede de ensino técnico e superior no estado do Rio Grande do Norte

• Autor(a) principal: Paiva, Rute Soares
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UFPB
• Texto Completo: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/tede/8146
• topic: Políticas educacionais; Educational policies; Expansão do ensino técnico e superior; Rio Grande do Norte; Expansion of technical and higher education; CIENCIAS EXATAS E DA TERRA::GEOCIENCIAS

This Thesis analyzes the educational policies that aimed at the expansion of technical and higher education in the state of Rio Grande do Norte. In recent years, Brazil has experienced a new phase with regard to education policy, focusing on ease of access to higher network and teaching technique. The educational policy of expansion aims at the decentralization of teaching units, until then very concentrated in large urban centers. Several medium-sized cities have benefited from this policy, because there are several other small towns around it, allowing access to public education without necessarily move to big cities or the capital. Such a measure facilitated access to education and, consequently, professional training. Within this perspective, we analyze public intervention expansion of technical and higher education institutions in the state of Rio Grande do Norte, in two cities considered of medium size, which exercise regional polarity: Pau dos Ferros and Mossoró, in the state's western region. These cities have benefited from the expansion of vacancies and also the construction of new university campuses. Both units have the following educational institutions: Universidade do Estado do Rio Grande do Norte (UERN); Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Rio Grande do Norte (IFRN); e Universidade Federal Rural do Semiárido (UFERSA). The work was divided into four chapters. Initially, it tried to contextualize technical and higher education in the country, focusing on the recent educational policies that saw this expansion process. In the second chapter, it sought to understand how this expansion happened in the state of Rio Grande Norte. In the third and fourth chapter, we search to understand the current technical and higher education setup in cities focus of research, therefore it was performed interviews with the managers of the institutions surveyed and were collected data that could show the area of influence of the institutions surveyed. The findings from this study allow us to state that this process, although it is derived from a national policy, it had a strong influence of local politics, particularly as regards the choice of cities to host the teaching units. Therefore, it is emphasized that, although some difficulties encountered, this expansion was undoubtedly of great importance for technical and higher education in the interior of Rio Grande do Norte state.