Abstract

CORREIA, Fabio Caires  and  CASTRO, Gillianno José Mazzetto de. The collapse of formation: from Universitas sapiens to Universitas economica. Sér.-Estud. [online]. 2021, vol.26, n.58, pp.341-357.  Epub Feb 28, 2022. ISSN 2318-1982.  https://doi.org/10.20435/serie-estudos.v26i58.1541.

The use of the term collapse in the title may seem strange. How does it collapse if the institutions, and in this case, the university, continue to operate normally? According to the logic of common sense, and with some reason, the university did not fail to do what it is “obliged” to do, that is, to restore professionally prepared people to society. It continues to do so, even if (1) under new rules, (2) under new conditions, and even (3) under another sign. Collapse does not mean the freezing of its functioning, i.e., the abrupt interruption of its functions, or even the impediment of fulfilling its purpose. It is, first of all, to stop being guided by its own history, forgetting to pay attention to what, since its origins, is most dear to it. Our objective in this present paper is to think about the university, therefore, the formation per se. This requires us to locate in time a university model that, in our view, characterizes well the identity crisis that our formation is experiencing at the moment. Last but not least, we want to show that the crisis of modernity is, on a large scale, a crisis of thought, more so, a crisis of an institutional model of thought.

Keywords : university; formation; instrumentalization; economy.

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