Abstract

DOURADO, Luiz Fernandes. Politics and management of the superior education in the distance: new regulatory landmarks?. Educ. Soc. [online]. 2008, vol.29, n.104, pp. 891-917. ISSN 0101-7330.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0101-73302008000300012.

To evaluate the current politics and management for the basic and superior education, the article focuses new regulatory landmarks of the expansion process and analyzes the politics directed to the formation of professors, with special distinction for the education in the distance in the public sector. In this direction, it presents and it analyzes some educational pointers and it searchs to apprehend, in the field of the politics proposals for the MEC, the paper of the " New CAPES" as space of regulation of the politics of formation of professors, emphasizing the public expansion, in the EaD modality, by means of the challenges of the consolidation of the Open University of Brazil (UAB).

Keywords : Superior education in the distance; Public expansion; Regulation.