Universidade: uma instituição estratégica

Abstract

The article intends to develop a critical reflection on the current discussion concerning public universities of peripheral countries. It aims to place the production of knowledge, science and technology at the universities as a strategy of the State, and as such, influenced by the determinations derived from the broader capitalist economy. Demystify the ideological content of the multilateral organism politics about the market as well as bring about the full concept of liberty and criticism of the production of knowledge are the main points of this article. It defends the thesis that a university, as a social patrimony of public interest, does not have to be submitted to the market rules.