Expansão da educação superior: o contexto dos cursos de educação física no Brasil

Abstract

This research sought to examine how to configure the expansion of higher education in Brazil, with a focus on courses in Physical Education. It is characterized as an explicative study documentary, having as a source the data bank of the Ministry of Education on the Higher Education Census carried out by the National Institute for Educational Research Anísio Teixeira; as also to the Law of higher education. We used the universe of higher education, from the middle of the decade of 1990 related to the policy adopted by the government of Fernando Henrique Cardoso, and the last census updated at the time of the research, the year 2009, with the policy present in mandate of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. The findings show that the Brazilian higher education is involved in a complex and heterogeneous model of education, based on the interests of international bodies marked by changes in the organization of the system and the privatization of higher education by making the State fails to its obligations to the public education seeking to invest in the private sector. The results indicate that in the year 2009, the total of 2,314 higher education institutions (HEIS), 89.4 % are tied to the private sector; and 10.6 % in the public sector. In addition, there was an increase of 353.7 % in the number of undergraduate courses onsite. As for the courses of Physical Education, in the last census analyzed there are records of 825 courses, with 27% of SPECIES; and 73.3 % in private, with expansion from the year of 2000 concentrated in the southeast and south of the country, predominantly, in the institutions of a private nature and in establishments isolates. As seen, the increase of the courses of Physical Education follows the logic of growth in the face of a wide-ranging process of structural changes in the economy. Therefore, to ensure greater access to higher education needs to be thinking about a set of public policies, which are interconnected with the interests and needs of society.