Coordenação de cursos no ensino superior: historiografia e possibilidades de formação para a prática

Abstract

This research aims to investigate the training offered, or not, in different administrative categories of graduate education institutions (public, private and community), for future and current course coordinators. The research is based on thinkers who analyze human experience, education as a whole, the importance of the individual's ongoing training and other areas of knowledge that support this research. Oral History was used as a methodological line, with a qualitative approach based on the testimonies of the various interviewees - programs coordinators, teachers, academic leaders and MEC/Inep evaluator on their perceptions about the coordination role. It was elaborated through bibliographic research, with a brief historiographical survey of the origin of universities, from the beginning of graduate education in Brazil to the present day, identifying indicators of the creation of this important, but little discussed, role in the graduate educational process and, also, for subsidize readers with a good legislative vision and its evolution in the university scenario. The collected data were treated, analyzed and result it on this study. As a result of the research, it was possible to verify the administrative perception of university management in not offering specific training for the management of programs, characterize the various functions of the program coordinator, explain the relevant and variable actions to his/her performance in the organization, in the functioning of its program, in the academic community and in society. It can be said that, despite the large volume of assignments, we have evidenced many favors for the intervention of this element. This research intends to contribute and stimulate other studies on this theme and, with that, the perception about the challenges and demands related to the coordination role, regardless of the institutional category.