Autoformação e autovalorização na educação a distância na universidade pública brasileira

Abstract

This doctoral research intended to study the brazilian e.learning model implemented at public universities. It studies and analyses the dynamics of the educational policies regarding the aspects of self-formation and self valorization in the context of cognitive capitalism. It approaches the challenges as well as the possibilities for incluing the autonomy dimension as an important vector for social change and biopolitics in the dynamics of e.learning. It is an analytical-descriptive research encompassing three main dimensions:.a) the educational public policies; b) the students motivations and expectations and c) the processes of e.learning institution building in the brazilian Public Universities. It has a quanti-qualitative character and searches data from UNIRIO oficial reports in 2011 and 2012, which are presented in the chapter that discusses the govenmental regulations, plans and programmes for e.learning. It also contains two Case Studies, related to student motivations and institutional dimensions. The content analysis methodology was used to systematize the data and other research materials. The analysis of expressions enables the identification of important aspects of social semantic, i.e, a set of characteristics related to autonomy in the context of e.learning and its relation with the dynamics of self-formation and self-valorization as qualitative phenomena. The research at the end does not present a conclsive character. But it highlightes the circuntances under which the subjectivation phenomena may occurr in the e.learning processes. It also suggests the importance of changing educational practices as well as the limits that have to be dealt with in the area of public management. It lists several impasses and challenges which need to be faced regarding the power-knowledge relations which are blocking the Universities autonomy as well as the processes of social inclusion in a broader sense. Finally, it states that there is no model or one way road to overcome the obstacles and challenges which were identified; the autonomy as an element of the political–productive life is a dynamic construction of subjective interactions which cannot be submitted to hierarchical mechanisms of centralization and control which perpasses the educational public policies and its focus on financial and economic assumptions.