Abstract

LEAL, Fernanda Geremias; PAES, Raul Oliveira  and  MORAES, Mário César Barreto. The executive assistant in the management of internationalization of Brazilian higher education. Sér.-Estud. [online]. 2020, vol.25, n.54, pp.155-176.  Epub Sep 22, 2020. ISSN 2318-1982.  https://doi.org/10.20435/serie-estudos.v0i0.1370.

In Brazil, the internationalization of higher education begins and is developed with the incentive of the State, with a greater projection in public universities. Especially after 2010, this process got greater scope and intentionality in the management of these institutions. Given this context, the aim of this article is to understand the space that executive assistants occupy in the internationalization management of Brazilian federal universities. For that, we conduct a qualitative research with sixteen executive assistants who work in the departments responsible for managing international relations in such contexts. The integrated analysis of three dimensions − 1. context of action; 2. understanding about internationalization; 3. (self)assessment of their participation in the process management - demonstrate that, from an instrumental perspective, the promising context for executive assistants’ performance, their pragmatic view of the internationalization process, and the (self)evaluation they make about their participation are highly functionals to the “development” of internationalization at the institutional level. However, we question the possibility that they contribute to initiatives of international insertion that are detached from the dominant rationality.

Keywords : executive assistant; internationalization; higher education.

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