Education and knowledge production in the university: strategies of undergraduate and graduate students for entering the field

Abstract

The article tries to understand the formation and the production process of knowledge of undergraduates and graduate students in the context of the intensification of academic productivity through the analysis of their strategies and actions. A survey was conducted with students from a public university. This research has a qualitative approachand data analysis is based on Bourdieu and on critical education prospects. The choice of the students for activities legitimized by the university is based on the instrumentality of school success. The research activities are essential for the academic, professional and personal training of studente, however, its scientific practice has been shown to be intensified and productivist, guided by the marketization of knowledge. The formation of the university students is based in the hegemony of productive sociability and standardization of productivism, indicating recognition of the hierarchy, subsumed under rules as insertion strategy in the academic field.