A reforma universitária de 1968 e o processo de reestruturação da UFRGS (1964-1972): uma análise da política educacional para o ensino superior durante a ditadura civil-militar brasileira

Abstract

The dissertation analyses the restructure process at Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), from 1964 through 1972, with the purpose of observing how the education policy for higher education adopted during the civil-military dictatorship impacted on this process. It has been found that the debates about the subject of the university reform started before 1964, during the João Goulart government, and mobilized members of both student and professor groups. The proposal presented by the students at UFRGS before 1964 were similar to the demands presented by the national student movement. Among the professors at UFRGS, there was an influence of researches on university reforms prepared by experts from other institutions in the same period. Although the debates about the university reform at UFRGS had already been started, there was not any concluded plan for the restructure of the institution yet. The authoritarian context after the coup in 1964 changed this process. The repressive and modernizing mea