A formação do pesquisador na pós-graduação em educação na universidade moderna: valores epistemológicos e ético-políticos

Abstract

This work aims to comprehend the axiological referential of the Modern University and its consequences on the education process of the students in the Postgraduate Program in Education, (Portuguese: PPGED), on the Federal University of Pará, (Portuguese: UFPA). The research problem can be expressed by means of two questions: 1) Which epistemological, ethical and political values does UFPA incorporates on its ideal of formation? 2) With which values is the formation of PPGED researcher’s imbued? An epistemological approach was then used, substantiated on the hermeneutic-existential phenomenology and employing bibliographical data, semi-structured interview transcriptions and field notes as texts, in the organization of which content analysis techniques were utilized. Through this analysis it was concluded that the modern university has its origins rooted in the Illuminist philosophy, which despite considering the notion of research as its center, was truly based on the concept of Bildung (German word for “Formation”) and related to the neo-humanism. The university has to create researchers not limited to the stricto sensu, it must educate individuals who can think by their own means, autonomous, critic and rational, and in these values resides the essence of research. The following thesis could then be attested: “The epistemological, ethical and political references of the modern university, based on the notion of an autonomous, free, conscious and critical subjectivity maintains its institutional vigor in the constitution of the axiological referential concerning the process of education of UFPA students, specially PPGED students, despite being modalized and criticized, in a self-criticism oriented process, which is a constitutive part of the modern individual.