UFSB and the challenge of implementing a New University project in southern Bahia
Implementation. Brazilian University. UFSB.
The present thesis consists of a research challenge focused on the analysis of the implementation process of an innovative project of a federal institution of higher education, the Universidade Federal do Sul da Bahia, bold in its academic, administrative and pedagogical design, in the period from 2013 to 2013. 2017. To this end, initially, the lens of public policy implementation studies was sought and, later, the historical review of innovative initiatives in Brazilian universities, their resistance and results. Adding the perspective of emotions in the search for new rationalities for more possibilities of understanding the process, the concepts of recognition and contempt were added. Through the combined methodology of literature review and in-depth interviews, in the active listening of privileged witnesses of the process, implementing actors, it was possible to define the hypothesis that the cohesion of the beginning of the implementation was driven by mutual self-recognition, in the effort of all for the project to succeed, and that, to the extent of its operationalization, the implementation, by disregarding details of the concrete contexts, presented obstacles, practical inconsistencies, which, as inflections, were capable of generating unforeseen, unwanted and even perverse effects, tensions and pains, which, often not welcomed, generated different reactions in the subjects, from abandoning the project to resistance, individual and collective, manifesting movements of struggle for recognition, in turn, potentializers of conflicts and increasing loss of the collective capacity for dialogue, giving rise to ruptures and discontinuities. The study thus presents contributions to the diversification of the analysis of public policy implementation and to the reflection on the processes experienced at the Federal University of Southern Bahia in the defined time frame.