ABSTRACT
The article analyzes the passage of Paulo Freire by Unicamp. Some relevant authors point out that the universities’ institutionalization is characterized by two unequal movements, both of growing freedom of speech and didactic, political, administrative, and financial autonomy and of increasing bureaucratic protocols and strengthening a corporatism that harms the flow of innovation, changes, and plural paths. Anchored in the documents of Paulo Freire’s Labor Life History at Unicamp, this study suggests that his path can be taken as a paradigmatic case of understanding institutional projects in dispute, which held interests that oscillate between a critical, popular, and democratic perspective and actions that prioritize tradition, bureaucratic rites, and a model path of building careers in academic education.
Keywords
Paulo Freire; University; Unicamp