Cartografia simbólica da dignidade dos docentes de universidades brasileiras: uma reflexão à luz de Boaventura Sousa Santos
Tipo
Tese
Data de publicação
2013-05-08
Periódico
Citações (Scopus)
Autores
Medeiros, Ana Lucia de
Orientador
Teixeira, Maria Luisa Mendes
Título da Revista
ISSN da Revista
Título de Volume
Membros da banca
Gouvêa, Ricardo Quadros
Dutra, Joel Souza
Dias, Sonia Maria Rodrigues Calado
Limongi-frança, Ana Cristina
Dutra, Joel Souza
Dias, Sonia Maria Rodrigues Calado
Limongi-frança, Ana Cristina
Programa
Administração de Empresas
Resumo
Studies on human dignity has gained importance in the social sciences, and in particular
between those who research the issues-oriented organizations. The provision of higher
education in Brazil showed a significant and fast growth through the creation of new courses
and educational institutions. On the other hand, the expansion of higher education has led to
precarization of faculty relations, both by the increase in working hours, and the devaluation
of professor s salaries. The university management has been guided by monoculture of
knowledge and scientific rigor, of linear time, the social classification, the dominant scale and
the capitalist productivism, in the wake of Western rationality that is the dominant or
hegemonic scientific paradigm. The grid of theoretical work was based on studies by
Boaventura Sousa Santos, in particular, on the sociology of absences in the sociology of
emergences and the ecologies of knowledge. This author seeks to find alternatives to think
about a new world starting from the visibility of rich experiences that exist in the present, but
for reasons that were discredited indolent, arrogant, and metonymic proleptic. Sousa Santos
undertook to develop a new paradigm and also to counter-hegemonic, and from it, to find
concrete alternatives while transforming social reality. In light of this thinking, this thesis
intended to rethink the concept of dignity and devoted himself to the study of the following
research problem: How the dignity of professors in higher education is designed and
symbolized in management spaces in brazilian universities? The aim of this study was to
analyze how the dignities of professors is designed and symbolized in management spaces in
universities. Data were collected by means of fifteen semiestrutuctured interviews with
Brazilian universities professors and they were treated by symbolic cartography. The results
showed that professors assign as their responsibility to train and develop competent and
ethical people to work in the labor market and in society. Achieving this goal depends on the
philosophy and management practices adopted and implemented by higher education
institutions. The survey results revealed that universities, as organizations are productive,
produced absences and presences of dignity from the professors labor relations and
production developed in their interior. The presence of dignity of professors was symbolized
by the goddess Minerva representing knowledge and righteousness in Greek-Roman culture
context. The lack of dignity was symbolized by the figure of Greek mythology called Sísifo,
who was condemned by Zeus to hold a meaningless work and emptied in its subjectivities.
The data revealed that Minerva became more present in federal universities and universities
aimed at the long term, while Sísifo was more present in private colleges geared towards the
short term, but the symbol of Minerva no longer represents the aspirations of society. As well
as the Sísifo s.
Descrição
Palavras-chave
dignidade , ausências , emergências , ecologia de saberes , Minerva , Sísifo , dignity , absences , emergencies , ecology of knowledge , Minerva , Sísifo
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Citação
MEDEIROS, Ana Lucia de. Cartografia simbólica da dignidade dos docentes de universidades brasileiras: uma reflexão à luz de Boaventura Sousa Santos. 2013. 157 f. Tese (Doutorado em Administração) - Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, São Paulo, 2013.