Avaliação dos programas de pós-graduação Stricto Sensu da Universidade Estadual de Londrina (UEL) : um estudo a partir da teoria do campo científico de Pierre Bourdieu

Abstract

This research aims to investigate the internal and external factors to the scientific field who are "hurting" the Post-graduate Programs at the State University of Londrina (UEL) by the evaluation of the Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES). To this end, we present a sociological reflection (set of social representations that legitimize the field of post-graduate) on the structure of the post-graduate as well as the elements and strategies towards a political consolidation of Post-graduate Programs Stricto sensu at the UEL. Following the field theory of Pierre Bourdieu (2004), the scientific field has a set of representations conditioned by the symbolic capital, it means that, the dominant field by occupying strategic positions (which are defined policies for funding of scientific research and post graduate and evaluation system of graduate education) tend to stratify the structure and hinder the rise of groups with incipient symbolic capital. This way, we sought to analyze and interpret qualitative and quantitative way the official documents produced by agencies and stakeholders of the scientific field agents (evaluation forms, regulations, programs, resolutions, notices, documents the areas of assessment, etc.), both UEL as CAPES, as well as other agencies that overlap in the national system post-graduate, trying to elucidate the relations objectified in the structure of the field (power relations).