ABSTRACT
The article reflects on the role of academic-scientific institutions in the relationships they establish with one another and with collective and/or social movements. It defines the National Association of Graduate Studies and Research in Education as an academic-scientific institution present in the Brazilian scenario, whose field of action happens in double dimension: one that proposes an open and democratic organization dedicated to the development of an ethical-political science and an ethical framework for research in education; and another that opposes political and organizational structures of a vertically-oriented order. In addition, it debates some assumptions derived from the philosophy of Spinoza, aiming to stimulate the field of propositional possibilities, so the association mentioned above increasingly becomes a democratic institution, established in the plane of immanence of a concrete, ethical, and politically oriented social practice.
KEYWORDS:
science; ethics; politics; research