Abstract

FERNANDES, Maria Cristina da Silveira Galan. Reflections on the production of knowledge in the academic-scientific field: illusio and meritocracy. Rev. Elet. Educ. [online]. 2019, vol.13, n.3, pp.921-937.  Epub Sep 01, 2020. ISSN 1982-7199.  https://doi.org/10.14244/198271993544.

This article aims to discuss the production of knowledge in the academic-scientific field within the scope of the new university that exists in the XXI century in which the production of raw material knowledge is privileged, focused on the interests of the market. It is a bibliographical research, based on Pierre Bourdieu’s theoretical concepts, which help in the comprehension of the characteristics of the scientific field, marked by the dialectical pair knowledge and interest (illusio), highlighting the particularities of the production of knowledge centered on productivism and supported by the idea of meritocracy, structuring element of the academic-scientific field. It is understood that all social fields undergo resignifications, transformations or changes according to the historical context in which they are inserted and, in this regard, in the field of the research and the production of scientific knowledge there are, beyond the productivism, the competitive struggle for prestige and power, attitudes, actions and collaborative practices between the researchers. In conclusion, the understanding of the intrinsic and extrinsic characteristics of the scientific field, revealing the relations of power and domination that engender the production of knowledge, can expand the possibilities of constitution of a new emancipatory education project for human beings, contributing to the overcoming of the current productive and meritocratic professional habitus that conforms the illusio of researchers and students in the academic field.

Keywords : Higher education; Production of knowledge; Power relations; Meritocracy.

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