Interfaces between higher education interiorization and local development

Abstract

The way in which occupation and the industrialization process took place made Brazil a country marked by deep regional economic and social inequalities. There are several ways in which these disparities are manifested, among them, highlights included the restricted access to IES and their location concentrated in the most developed regions, relegating non-metropolitan and backward regions to the background, making access to higher education became the privilege of the few. Between 2003 and 2014, there was a change in the way the State operates, expanding the horizon of social coverage to layers that have always been on the margins of public power actions. The Lula and Dilma governments, through a set of policies for the expansion and interiorization of higher education executed these measures. Thus, the objective of this article is to discuss the main policies of expansion and interiorization of higher education implemented in Brazil, in the referred period, to describe how they changed the regional concentrating panorama and how this process can potentialize local development, in the light of Joseph Schumpeter and Celso Furtado's thought. To reach this objective, made itself a study of a descriptive character, bibliographic, and documental, with a quali-quantitative approach.