A Universidade contemporânea entre dois conservadorismos

Abstract

This text is the written version of my contribution to the round table “The education in Brazil today, held at the CERU National Meeting, in honor to the centenary of Maria Isaura Pereira de Queiroz, which took place in June 2019. He articulates certain analyzes of sociological ature to outline the political and cultural contemporary scenario, in which progressive liberal conservatism, that since decades promotes the organizational reform of the University, and the new backward conservatism from right wing, with its attacks on secular education, critical thinking and science. Detailing some paradoxes of management, that administer production and reproduction of knowledge in contemporary universities, reflection relates the performance requirements of the dominant connectionist view to the increasing mental suffering among university students. Thus, an reading of the two systems of domination that are currently combined, threatening the historical continuity of modern educational institutions and creating strong obstacles to the emancipatory perspectives against which they were formed.