Abstract

CABRAL NETO, Antônio  and  CASTRO, Alda Maria Duarte Araújo. The expansion of graduare education against a background of globalization: snippets of the brazilian situation. Rev. Inter Ação [online]. 2013, vol.38, n.2, pp.339-362. ISSN 0101-7136.  https://doi.org/10.5216/ia.v38i2.26108.

The paper analyzes the process of globalization in the context of technological innovation and its repercussions on education. It discusses the centrality of the production of knowledge for the competitiveness of nations and the role played by graduate education as the privileged locus for producing it. It analyzes the expansion of this educational level, in Brazil, in recent decades, based on data from GeoCapes. In the present context of globalization, it concludes that graduate education is of crucial importance in that it is a privileged strategic space for the formation of researchers who play a vital role in the production of knowledge and development of new technologies. In Brazil the number of research personnel has increased as seen from the expansion in the number of courses, enrollments and graduate students.

Keywords : Globalization; Graduate Education; Knowledge Production.

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