Legislação de ensino da Pós-graduação Lato Sensu na modalidade à distância: instrumentos de dominação

Abstract

This qualitative and exploratory study analyses the tools of domination within the legislation for lato sensu graduate courses in the distance education modality in order to have support to reflect on the hierarchization of relationships - domination as the main element of power, and shaping elements of the legal authority (norm). It is a rereading of legal texts with two goals: firstly, to contextualize the lato sensu graduate courses in the distance education modality within the Brazilian legislative panorama, and secondly to expose the tools of domination within the legislation for lato sensu graduate courses in the distance education modality. Teaching legislation, whether for lato sensu graduate courses in the distance education modality or for any other level or modality of education, it is, by itself, already a strong tool of domination because it concerns the normalization about a power field – the Education. Within this power field are inserted, via legislation, genuine tools of symbolic and hierarchic power, one of the methods of domination, which are: school unity, democratic management, pedagogical-political project,pedagogical management, faculty, and school rules, amongst others.