Abstract

BARRETO, Denise Aparecida Brito; OLIVEIRA, Albertina Lima  and  SEIXAS, Ana Maria. The social and political dimension of autonomy: questions and perceptions’ in higher education. Rev. Educ. Questão [online]. 2017, vol.55, n.46, pp.59-83. ISSN 1981-1802.  https://doi.org/10.21680/1981-1802.2017v55n46ID13292.

This article is anchored in the concepts formulated and presented by Paulo Freire (1996), autonomy as construction from a critical and liberating space, and José Contreras (2002), autonomy as one of the elements of professionalization, and aims to reflect how the higher education teachers understand the meaning of autonomy in their professional spaces and practices. The research was carried out at two public universities and two private colleges in Vitória da Conquista city, state of Bahia, Brazil, involving 25 professors who expressed their opinion about the themes under analysis in a comparative perspective through a questionnaire mostly composed of answers closed. The priority was a research of quantitative and descriptive approach and we have concluded that, despite advances in the field of autonomy, much still has to be done in the domain of reflection and construction of professors’ autonomy in the analyzed contexts, and there are important obstacles to be overcome.

Keywords : Autonomy; Teaching; Higher education; Reflexive Practice.

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