UNIVERSIDADE, JUVENTUDE E RESISTÊNCIA: MEMÓRIA DA REFORMA UNIVERSITÁRIA BRASILEIRA DE 1968

Abstract

The article aims to investigate the necessary relations between the University and the youth, from the affirmation that University and youth are protagonists of social transformations, sometimes through acts of resistance. The article investigates the origins of the University in Medieval Europe to point out the original characteristics that still remains and the modifications that transformed the University. The article investigates the origins of the University in Brazil and the growth of a university population. Next, the research investigates the concept of youth established in the variation of dangerous segment and subject of rights. The research articulates the two concepts to rescue the resistance movement to the Brazilian university reform of 1968, in the context of the military government and the MEC-Usaid Agreements. It is a bibliographical and a memory research. It concludes that there is a necessary implication between university and youth, revealing that a crisis in the university can be cause and consequence of a crisis in the youth.