A democracia nas Instituições de Ensino Superiores (IES): uma análise das universidades e institutos federais

Abstract

Democracy is a form of social organization whose principles are freedom, equality among theirs members and diversity among them. In this sense, this paper aims to analyze in which aspects Brazilian Higher Education Institutions can be said to be democratic, this paper take into account the Universities and the Federal Institutes of Education, Science and Technology. For this, it starts with the establishment of what is democracy, having as reference the Plato’s exposetion in the Republic; after, it is analyzed the causes of a social body, in that light of Marsílio of Pádua, in The Defender of Peace; then, how happen the causal unity, according to Proclus. Established the conceptual bases, it is analyzed how the democratic pillars are present in the HEI and; finally, in what aspects the HEI can be called democratic, relating the conceptual framework with the analysis of the democratic pillars present in the HEI. In this way, it is concluded that the HEI are potentially democratic, being necessary, however, elements that guarantee the full effectiveness of their democracy.