Dissemination and democratization of knowledge in times of academic-scientific productivism

Abstract

Based on research in education as the object of analysis, the objective of this article is to discuss how the concept of academic productivism helps us understand the production of knowledge in education and its dissemination process in light of the productive demands that direct Brazilian postgraduate studies. We problematize the current situation of this debate when Brazilian postgraduate policy emphasizes research production as an institutional evaluation criterion, homogenizing metrics that may contribute to possible theoretical and methodological weaknesses. This is bibliographic and documentary research with theoretical support based on the Marxist approach that articulates the economic, political and social condition of capitalist society with the production of knowledge in education. In this sense, we affirm the need for a debate on the research movement in light of productive pressures and the way in which this demand subverts the logic of knowledge as a common good to the logic of the market, redefining the very idea of ​​knowledge production.