Lições sobre a Universidade: questões relativas ao ensino e à formação docente no contexto da universidade contemporânea

Abstract

This article discusses the locus of the Higher Education inside the modern society in the period of democratization of the university entry especially in Latin America. Its purpose is to explore the questions about the inclusion of the students, faculty professional development and the responsibilities of government related to the Higher Education policies. It has redefined the concepts of the social aspect of the knowledge, the faculty practice and the social demand for a teaching of quality. It has finished with the consideration that even though there are attempts of social adjustment inside Latin America, which has been set by public policies of teaching, these ones have faced the challenge of the drop-out rates, the massification of the education and of the careers, the absence of faculty improvement under the social context strongly marked by the reestructured capitalism of the late 20th century