Abstract

CASTRO, ALDA MARIA DUARTE ARAÚJO  and  ARAUJO, NATANIEL DA VERA-CRUZ GONÇALVES. Higher education in Brazil and the use of Distance Education as a strategy for expansion and massification. Revista Brasileira de Política e Administração da Educação [online]. 2018, vol.34, n.1, pp.189-209. ISSN 2447-4193.  https://doi.org/10.21573/vol34n12018.80574.

It analyzes the expansion of the distance higher education and its contributions to the teaching massification. It is assumed that this expansion is motivated by the importance that the knowledge and competitiveness occupy in society nowadays. It uses a critical approach that aims to explain the problem considering its mediations. The distance education has contributed to the expansion and massification of higher education, mainly in the private segment, increasingly discharging the state of assuming the education as a public welfare.

Keywords : higher education; distance education; expansion; massification.

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