Abstract

FRANCO, Sérgio Roberto; FRANCO, Maria Estela Dal Pai  and  LONGHI, Solange. Higher Education Policy and Management, Technology and Possibilities in Times of Covid-19. Rev. Int. Educ. Super. [online]. 2022, vol.8, e022039.  Epub Aug 12, 2022. ISSN 2446-9424.  https://doi.org/10.20396/riesup.v8i0.8663799.

This work aims to analyze the challenges that the current pandemic scenario resulting from Covid-19 has imposed on institutions of knowledge (universities), understanding that the movements generated in them are incorporated into the changing field of Higher Education, in the strength of its diversity of trajectories and in their interconnections, interests and interlocutions. Public policies are discussed based on official documents impregnated by contradictions and questions, in the face of contemporary needs, on issues of technology and sustainability and the way in which HEIs respond to them. The analysis categories emerged from the set of information resulting from webinars promoted by RIES (South Brazilian Network of Higher Education Investigators) and from the case study of a community university (UPF). The perspective of analysis makes use of academic productions linked to public policies in facing challenges prompted by technology and sustainability and institutional reactions made public. The study evidences the adoption of new strategies in academic management. It is time for higher education to face institutional autonomy. The visualization of possibilities for living in a better and sustainable world can be strengthened in the conduct of management, considering needs, commitments, experiences of different HEIs and the role of technology in these processes, especially in the current pandemic context.

Keywords : Public policy in education; Management; Higher education; Technology; Sustainability; Pandemic.

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