Abstract

MENDONCA, Ana Waleska Pollo Campos. The postgraduate studies with strategy for the reconstruction of the Brazilian university System. Educ. Rev. [online]. 2003, n.21, pp.01-20. ISSN 0104-4060.

This article is the result of a research project entitled “The Training of Teachers: the Contribution of Anísio Teixeira for the Institutionalization of Postgraduate Studies in Brazil” (A formação dos mestres: a contribuição de Anísio Teixeira para a institucionalização da pós-graduação no Brasil), which analyzed the policies developed by the Brazilian educator Anísio Teixeira, while acting as head of CAPES - Campaign for the Improvement of University Personnel (Campanha de Aperfeiçoamento do Pessoal de Nível Superior) - now a foundation linked to the Ministry of Education, during its initial years of operation, from 1951-1964. The research is historical, its basic corpus of documents being: a) texts published by Anísio Teixeira, from 1946 to 1971; b) documents in the archives of CAPES, in the personal archives of Anísio Teixeira, in the Centre for Research and Documentation in Contemporary Brazilian History, at the Getúlio Vargas Foundation, and in the Programme of Studies and Documentation in Education and Society, at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro; c) the Bulletins of CAPES, published monthly from 1952 to 1964; d) interviews with contemporary collaborators of Anísio Teixeira, in CAPES, during the period studied. The results of the research confirm our initial hypothesis, that the role of Anísio Teixeira at the head of this institution was fundamental in giving it the form and function it ended up assuming, turning it into an instrument for the promotion of postgraduate studies in Brazil. Within this perspective, CAPES developed, in its initial years, a set of initiatives and policies which had, as a basic presupposition, the idea that postgraduate study should constitute the principal strategy for the reconstruction of the Brazilian university system, as an adequate locus for the development of scientific research and as a space for the education of university professors.

Keywords : Brazilian University; Postgraduate Studies; Anísio Teixeira.

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