A pesquisa e a pós-graduação no Brasil: entre o descaso e o obscurantismo

Abstract

The text discusses the state of Research and Development in Brazil in relation to the world context, the structuring of the national postgraduate system and then reflects on research in education and its problems today. The main objective is to problematize the direction of research in education in the face of the institutional crisis experienced by Brazilian universities, in a context that involves: i) significant retraction of public investment in higher education, science and technology in recent years and increasing conditioning of the agenda by sectorial funds; ii) overvaluation of knowledge about education formulated within multilateral institutions such as the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), based on statistics and evidence, to the detriment of critical knowledge produced by the scientific community; and iii) the advancement of a negationist movement, led by the government of Jair Bolsonaro, which demonstrates against universities and all institutions that correspond to the ideas and spirit of the Enlightenment.