The Brazilian public university between rupture and continuity: recovering Álvaro Vieira Pinto’s historical critique as a horizon of sovereignty (1961-2026)
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https://doi.org/10.5212/PraxEduc.v.21.25650.007Abstract
This study analyzes the trajectory of the Brazilian public university, aiming to investigate the gap between the reformist project of 1962 and the institutional impasses of 2026. The methodology is grounded in the History of Ideas from a dialectical perspective, taking Álvaro Vieira Pinto’s work as its central analytical axis. The research revisits the author’s critique of the “alienated and alienating” university, which operates as a mechanism for elite reproduction and as an “assembly line” for exogenous forms of knowledge. The findings indicate that the silencing of this critique has contributed to the consolidation of a heteronomous university model, currently intensified by technological precarization and the expansion of Artificial Intelligence. The study concludes that overcoming the Brazilian educational crisis requires the recovery of intellectual autonomy and the protagonism of the popular masses—conditions identified by Vieira Pinto as indispensable for the construction of a project of national sovereignty in the twenty-first century.
Keywords: Álvaro Vieira Pinto. Public university. National sovereignty.
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