A Study on the Relevance of the Foundational Model in the Brazilian Higher Education: The Case of the Bauru Educational Foundation

This article goal is to discuss the role of foundations in the expansion and interiorization of Brazilian higher education. The discussion is based on the results of a doctoral research project that developed a historiographical study of the Mathematics course at the Bauru Educational Foundation/São Paulo State University. Here, we present a brief overview of the spread of the foundational model on Brazilian soil, highlighting the states of São Paulo and Santa Catarina, where higher education spread to the countryside, mainly through municipal educational foundations. Although they were treated as an exception by the current legislation at the time, educational foundations enjoyed a boom between the 1960s and 1980s, playing a fundamental role in the democratization of access to undergraduate courses, in a scenario where the supply of places at federal and state public institutions tended to be limited and restricted to the capital cities.

Keywords:
Educational Foundation; History of Education; Oral History; Dictatorship