Um clima particular: Ambiente institucional de organizações de ensino superior do sistema privado e sua relação com a produção acadêmica de ênfase em pesquisa

Abstract

The international scenario of higher education has seen a huge expansion in enrollment. This phenomenon was accompanied by a process of institutional differentiation, associated with the system stratification according to the prestige of the institutions. We appeal to the sociology of organizations to assess their social impact. Changes in goals and in the public of the Higher Education Institutions (HEIs), arising during or transformed with the expansion, have an impact on the academic and intellectual climate of these organizations, and would account for part of the effect of institutional stratification. Gather information about students of higher education across Brazil through ENADE (2004), and compared their socio-cultural character in accordance with federal and private systems in order to find evidence of institutional differentiation in the higher education system in Brazil. With information about the academic quality of the HEI from private higher education, we evaluate possible relationships of its institutional policy on the academic production of teachers living in Belo Horizonte, MG. Our results indicate that we can not rule out the plausibility of the theory ofinstitutional differentiation in Brazil. According to this thesis (PRATES, 2005), the business model, managerial administration of private HEIs contradicts the nature of scientific excellence, in that dismantles the institutional environment of the traditional university model: disruption of teaching autonomy in determining its production, concentration of institutional incentives (pressure boss-subordinate, direct wage reward)on the activities of teaching and hour/ class, etc., to the detriment of research activities. This would be one of the dilemmas faced by the higher education systems in Brazil, thanks to the characteristics of its expansion.