Abstract

CORREIA FILHO, JOÃO MANUEL; ALEAGA, TAIMARA ROA  and  SACOMBOIO FILHO, FILOMENA DE JESUS FRANCISCO CORREIA. The massification of higher education as public educational policy and its implications in Angola. Revista Brasileira de Política e Administração da Educação [online]. 2020, vol.36, n.2, pp.750-767.  Epub Jan 11, 2021. ISSN 2447-4193.  https://doi.org/10.21573/vol36n22020.103658.

The process of massification of Higher Education imposes a vision of training professionals in the society that is in transit with different conceptions in the subsystem. In this sense, it is based on concepts of legitimate participation, personal development, and training of committed and adaptable professionals as an expression of a dynamic that must be sustained by changes inherent to the growing development of society. In this way, the article aims to analyze the massification of Higher Education as a public education policy taking into account its implications. Thus, the study has a qualitative approach, which was adapted for the educational context of Higher Education in Angola. An analysis was made of the stages that led the process of massification according to educational policies through analytical and descriptive research based on a bibliographic and documentary analysis in search of answers to a social reality about this process from its genesis to the present. However, the massification of Higher Education led to an increase in HEIs and, consequently, the number of students and teachers in this subsystem, reducing the rural exodus. Besides, it brought positive and negative consequences that serve as a basis for improving the process taking into account the articulation of teaching, research, management, and extension.

Keywords : Massification; Higher Education and Public Educational Policies.

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