Banca de DEFESA: FABIANA ARAÚJO NOGUEIRA
Uma banca de DEFESA de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.STUDENT : FABIANA ARAÚJO NOGUEIRA
DATE: 26/08/2025
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: Auditório 02 do PPGEd - NEPSA II
TITLE:
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KEY WORDS:
Internationalization of Higher Education; Postgraduate Studies; Academic Mobility; CAPES Print Program.
PAGES: 276
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Educação
SUMMARY:
This doctoral thesis aims to analyze the implementation of the CAPES-PrInt Program at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), between 2019 and 2022, in light of the context of fiscal austerity, international guidelines, and inequalities between fields of knowledge, with an emphasis on the participation of the Humanities. This scenario, marked by budget cuts in federal public universities, directly impacted the internationalization processes of Brazilian graduate education, leading CAPES to adopt more restrictive and selective guidelines. It is argued that the internationalization perspective underlying the creation of CAPES-PrInt was guided by the logic of competitiveness and excellence, contributing to the deepening of historical inequalities within the Brazilian higher education system. This policy fostered competition among academic fields, favoring areas such as Exact and Earth Sciences and Health Sciences to the detriment of the Humanities. As an epistemological framework, the historical-dialectical materialism was adopted, based on the principle that the object of study must be apprehended in its concrete totality, considering its historical, social, and institutional determinations. The methodological procedures involved bibliographic research, document analysis, collection of quantitative empirical data, application of a questionnaire, and semistructured interviews.The results indicate that CAPES-PrInt had low significance as an internationalization policy at UFRN, totaling only 137 scholarships granted between 2019 and 2022. Among the factors that explain this low engagement are: the Covid-19 pandemic; students’ lack of knowledge about the program; low institutional incentive; language proficiency requirements; difficulties in adapting research projects to the program’s strategic themes; and the scarcity of advisors in foreign institutions. CAPES-PrInt is revealed as a policy forged in the context of neoliberalism and austerity, reshaping national scientific policy through productivist and exclusionary criteria that restrict access to internationalization to those who already possess academic, cultural, and linguistic capital. The research participants’ statements, while denouncing these contradictions, also point to forms of resistance and the invention of alternatives, highlighting that a critical and democratic internationalization remains a possible horizon, albeit one constantly challenged by the structures of inequality. Finally, it is argued that internationalization policies developed by CAPES should assume a more democratizing perspective, promoting the effective expansion of international engagement across all fields of knowledge, taking education as an inalienable right and a fundamental condition for human and social emancipation.
COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Externa à Instituição - ANTONIA COSTA ANDRADE - UNIFAP
Presidente - ***.306.895-** - ALDA MARIA DUARTE ARAÚJO CASTRO - UFRN
Externo à Instituição - ALLAN SOLANO SOUZA - UERN
Externo ao Programa - 347393 - ANTONIO CABRAL NETO - nullExterno ao Programa - 1458867 - GILMAR BARBOSA GUEDES - nullExterna à Instituição - MARIA DA SALETE DE FARIAS BARBOSA - UFPB
Externa ao Programa - 347594 - MARIA GORETTI CABRAL BARBALHO - null