Democratization in Brazilian Higher Education: An Open Debate

DOI: https://doi.org/10.54674/ess.v34i2.613
Keywords: Democratization; Higher Education; Decoloniality and Interculturality

Abstract

The article aims to discuss decolonial proposals for Brazilian higher education through a documentary research, using the methodological technique of content analysis (Bardin, 1977) in the final documents (Final Declaration and Action Plan CRES 2018-2028) of the III Regional Conference on Higher Education in Latin America and the Caribbean (CRES 2018). The analytical categories diversity and interculturality were listed in these documents, highlighting the relevance of educational policies based on them for the implementation of a democratic higher education project in Brazil marked by equitable racial relations. Thus, it was possible to identify that, when dealing with diversity and interculturality, the documents point to a decolonial proposal. Therefore, it is concluded that the democratization of higher education constitutes an open debate. Diversity and interculturally are identified as being indispensable political paradigms that must be articulated with a decolonial project for the advancement of the democratization policies in progress since the beginning of the 21st century. In other words, to democratize is to decolonize.

Author Biographies

Filipe Luiz Cerqueira Carvalho, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ)

Master in Education - PPGECC-UERJ. Specialist in School Management, Coordination and Pedagogical Supervision - Universidade Veiga de Almeida. Graduated in Pedagogy - UERJ/EDU. Substitute Teacher in Infant Education - Cap-UFRJ. Member/Researcher of the Nucleus of Afro-Brazilian Studies - NEAB-UERJ. Member/Researcher of the research group Currículo em Movimento na Educação Infantil - CEIMOV-UFRJ. He is interested in studies in the following areas: Higher Education, racial relations, post-colonialism, decoloniality, interculturalism, teacher education and curriculum.

Maria Alice Rezende Gonçalves, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ).

PhD in Collective Health (UERJ), Professor of the Department of Social Sciences and Education of the Faculty of Education of UERJ and in the Graduate Program in Education, Culture and Communication in Urban Peripheries of FEBF/UERJ. She has experience in the areas of Anthropology of Afro-Brazilian Populations, Education, Inclusive Policies and Afro-Brazilian culture.

Published
2022-12-20
How to Cite
Cerqueira Carvalho, F. L., & Rezende Gonçalves, M. A. (2022). Democratization in Brazilian Higher Education: An Open Debate. Higher Education and Society Journal (ESS), 34(2), 30-51. https://doi.org/10.54674/ess.v34i2.613
Issue
Vol 34 No 2 (2022): Democratization and diversity inclusion policies in higher education in Latin America and the Caribbean
Section
Articles Thematic Dossier

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