A responsabilidade social na regulação da educação superior: concepção/ações na prática de uma instituição privada no município de São Luís – MA

Abstract

This dissertation discusses the concept of social responsibility in the regulation of higher education and its use by private institutions. It aims to analyze the conception of social responsibility assimilated in documents and translated into the academic practice of a higher education institution, private, for profit. The research is exploratory and qualitative, developing based on bibliographic texts and document analysis (normative measures, Institutional Development Plan, Course Projects and Institution Report on social responsibility). In the construction of the theoretical framework of analysis, the contribution of several authors was taken as reference. Among them, the following stand out: Afonso (2009), Barroso (2005), Barreyro and Rothen (2006), Calderón (2005, 2006, 2011, 2016), Carvalho (2010), Couto (2010), Catani and Almeida Junior (2011), Cruz (2010), Dias Sobrinho (1996, 2004,2008), Ferreira (2014), Krawczyk (2005), Lima ( 2011), Morosini (2001), Queiroz (2011), Reis and Bandos (2004), Schneider and Rostirola (2015), Sguissardi (2008), Tenório and Andrade (2009), Verhine (2015), among others. The research emphasizes that, since the mid-1990s, higher education regulation has taken place through assessment and is currently expressed through three SINAES instruments: institutional, course and student performance assessment, the results of which condition accreditation and re-accreditation. as well as authorization, recognition and renewal of course recognition. This system included as an evaluative dimension the concept of social responsibility, developed in the business sector as a marketing strategy and social image of an ethical company that provides welfare services to society, but later assimilated into public policies in articulation with the fulfillment of the institutional mission. and their social purposes with social quality. In the documentary analysis of a private institution, the concept of social responsibility is appreciated from a business perspective, associated with extension and assistance actions, predominantly disconnected from professional training and scientific production activities, prevailing the marketing and projection strategy of the company. social image of an ethical institution in the face of social problems.