THE CONSTITUTION OF THE ACADEMIC FIELD IN EDUCATIONAL POLICY IN THE NORTHEAST REGION OF BRAZIL (Atena Editora)

Abstract

The present study seeks to investigate the relationship between the standards of scientific production and the training academic policy, through the struggles generated between the different positions of agents belonging to the field of Educational Policy of the stricto sensu Postgraduate Education programs in the Northeast region of Brazil. To this end, supported by sociological practice and the Pierre Bourdieu's scientific field theory, the emphasis falls on the agent that produces one academic work representation on the subject of a scientific and institutionalized nature, as well as the social conditions of its practice. The agents within such a space, endowed with a system of dispositions, with specific competencies, different types of capital and their interests, confront each other in the struggle to legitimize a certain conception about the themes, local and regional; which is, above all, a way of looking at the academic social world. Methodologically, we sought to establish the structure of the production academic space, through the use of structured interviews, so that the formation trajectories could be identified academic-professional of the agents and the conditions of scientific production. The organization of the field takes place, above all, through the disputes undertaken by peers in the search for scientific authority, that is, the conquest of scientific credit hasfundamental importance in the publishing market, where research results gain projections at scientific community and turn into credits that, consequently, are exchanged for others.