O processo de internacionalização das universidades públicas brasileiras e o caso da UFJF

Abstract

This study aims to verify the motivating factors and consequences of the internationalization of Higher Education Institutions in the world context and in Brazil, considering the relations between central countries and countries of periphery and semiperiphery. Secondly, we sought to analyze the internationalization process at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF), where the international relations department manages its own international mobility program, PII-GRAD, as well as Brazilian government programs, such as the Exchange Program for Undergraduate Students (PEC-G), the Science without Borders (CsF) and the Language without Borders (IsF). For the analysis of these programs, this study draw upon the perspective of the historical and dialectical materialism, as explained by Marx and Engels and systematized by Karel Kosik, placing Brazilian public universities in a broader context, in the crises of world universities framework, and relating them not only to the needs of the market, but to neoliberal practices, to the dictates of financial capital, and to the very maintenance of imperialism. As a result, using the example of the UFJF, we show how an own internationalization program can be used to counteract the process of internationalization conducted by international organizations, such as the World Bank, and institutions of the central countries.