Ensino Superior Privado: notas sobre o trabalho dos docentes nas Instituições Particulares de Ensino Superior em Brasília

Abstract

This paper focuses on the Work of Faculty Members in Private Higher Education Institutions in Brasilia, Brazil, and aims to reveal how and from which elements the professional identity of such faculty members is built. The supposition is that the identity of that specific group suffers, like that of other professional groups, strong repercussions due to transformations which have taken place in the world of labor as well as to the expansion of higher education in the private sector in Brazil in the 1990’s. The efforts were centered on circumscribing and relating the object of study to the transformations transpired in the world of labor as well as those connected with the configuration of Private Higher Education in Brazil.