In defense of pluralism of ideas

uma discussão sobre a liberdade de cátedra no julgamento da ADPF nº 548 do Supremo Tribunal Federal

Abstract

The present work seeks to reflect on the need to guarantee the freedom of professorship in the brazilian educational context in the light of the judgment of the ADPF nº 548 of the Supreme Federal Court. The research is descriptive in relation to the desired objectives. As for the methodology, it is characterized as bibliographic and documentary, stimulating the achievement of its result from the analysis of the aforementioned decision. This action aimed to avoid and repair injuries to fundamental precepts resulting from acts of the public power within public and private universities in the context of the presidential elections of the year 2018, guided by decisions of electoral judges of several regions of Brazil. It was concluded that the curtailment of pluralism of ideas and the control of critical political thought within universities can cause compromising consequences of the democratic order itself, considering that the dissemination of knowledge enables positive transformation and impact on the country's social, cultural, economic and political issues. In this sense, the freedom of the chair cannot be violated nor used as an instrument for limiting the right to education in a broad sense.