Avaliação institucional emancipatória: contribuição de Jurgen Habermas

Abstract

The theme of this dissertation is emancipatory institutional evaluation - as an instrument of developing a critical analysis of higher education -, revisited on the basis of the Theory of Communicative Acting of Jürgen Habermas. The theoretical and methodological framework is laid down by means of the analysis of reports of higher education institutions and evaluation criteria established by Antonio Amorim and Pedro Demo: democracy, autonomy, formal and political qualities, competence and productivity, as well as the categories language, intersubjectivity, communication, sense, comprehension and meaning, which pertain to the sphere of social relations. These categories belong to the Theory of Communicative Acting and are therefore interpreted in light of it.This framework constitutes the Emancipatory Institutional Evaluation Paradigm, in opposition to the Traditional Institutional Evaluation Paradigm. Subsequently, and for the sake of illustration, a case study focusing on the Ponta Grossa State University, is carried ou1. This institution has a significant experience in the area of evaluation and is reshaping its institutional evaluation project in accordance with this paradigm. In addition to this, the Brazilian policy for higher education evaluation is also gone into, through the discussion of the major programs which are being developed on a federal level: the Institutional Evaluation Program for Brazilian Universities (PAIUB) and the National Courses Exam (PROVÃO). The study reveals that the PAIUB has characteristics which are very much in keeping with those of the Emancipatory Institutional Evaluation Paradigm