Knowledge crisis or university crisis: an approach from Álvaro Vieira Pinto’s thinking

Abstract

This presente work consists of an analysis of the question of knowledge and the crisis in the university, showing how the two strands are interconnected by a narrow epistmological and ideological link. The goal of this approach aims to address that the knowledge and university crisis favor the minority class in a underdeveloped society as we have in Brazil nowadays. The contente structure of this theme is distributed in two central axes: the crises of knowledge and the university to maintain the dominant ideology, concerns are the preservation of the privileges of a minority from the poor distributon of income and knowledge. This ends up teasing the rich class and deteriorates the socioeconomic conditions of the poorer class. Both access to knowledge and university are restricted to the richest layer of society. In contrast to the difficulty of acess from the poorest social layers to the university means that there is no appropriation of konwlwdg linked to reality and, therefore, they do not understand the contexto in which their lives develop, producing the naive counsciousness that consilidates the domination and exploration of the masses, giving rise to the phenomenon of dehumanization of the poor mass. Finally, this theme was organized to animate the discussion about the social crisis of knowlwdg and the university as an instrumentalized epistemological and ideological phenomenon for the domination and exploration of the minority over the vast mayority in society.