As reformas nas matrizes curriculares do curso de ciências econômicas da Universidade Católica de Santos (1984-2011).

Abstract

This paper starts from the examination of the national reform of the curriculum of economics in 1984 that brought significant changes in the way in which economics was taught in the country. Teaching has become plural from the point of view of presenting the various theoretical paradigms of the Economic Science. It also emphasized understanding the Brazilian social reality and dialogue with the other disciplines of the humanities. This new curriculum was implemented in the economics course at the Catholic University of Santos, also in 1984, with the necessary adaptations but with the very essence of major proposal. This paper follows the curricular reforms in the economics course at the Catholic University of Santos between 1984 and 2011 and verifies if they've kept the plural, humanist character of the course and the concern in understanding the social issues of the Brazilian reality. The conclusions indicate that the economics course has kept the features of the reform of 1984, but with change in its trend, apparently to a path of training the students for the professional market but in a insecure way and without clarity, standing apart from the academic community who thinks the future of economics teaching in Brazil and worldwide.