O papel da educação na promoção do desenvolvimento sustentável: um estudo sobre a expansão do ensino superior na região metropolitana do Cariri

Abstract

Education in general and more specifically the expansion of higher education within the federal states, dialogues with current studies of new models of development. We discuss here the expansion of access to formal education in these places and these models. In this sense, was chosen as the theme of this research Higher Education in the Perspective of Sustainable Development in the Metropolitan Region of Cariri. The aim of this study is to provide access to higher education in this territory as a tool capable of driving sustainable development. To this end, the research sought to make a historical survey of educational policies for higher education in Brazil and CMR, to characterize the socioeconomic status of CMR in the first decade of this century, to show the importance of public policies on the expansion of higher education in the region and to relate the role of the university and the promotion of sustainable development. It was considered the period between the years 2000 to 2010 and selected variables in the social dimension of sustainability. This research proposes itself descriptive, characterized in that the installation and expansion of higher education in Cariri from the relationship between the chosen variables. This work is a result of documentary research based on secondary data, which are available in institutional databases of IES in the sample and also for public research, as the INEP, IBGE and IPECE. The table shows the RMC socioeconomic progress and weaknesses in the way of sustainability. To leverage the DS effort is needed on several fronts, taking into account all dimensions of sustainability, it is necessary to continue expanding access to higher education, as well as solve the age-grade in high school, that have suffered a marked decline in the last decade, but still persists. The results obtained after analyzing the data, show that the RMC has advanced in strategic areas for the DS, though it is an essential concern of a conceptual nature and quality with regard to education, in order that sustainable development calls for a change of mindset. An important tool is being disseminated, and this research comes to prove that, which is the access to schooling. This report has to say also that advances in important areas of the social dimension achieved in the last decade in the RMC promote favorable conditions for sustainable development of CMR.