Superior Ensino in Brazil the workmanship Superior Education in Brazil is inserted in a coletnea of the book Histories and memories of the Education in Brazil? Vol III and has as Marlia author Morosini Coast permitted and bacharelada in Social Sciences, mestrado in Educational Sociology, doutorado in Education for the UFRGS and after-doutorado in the LILLAS/Universidade of the Texas. One of the main researchers is considered in if treating to superior education in Brazil. Today its research is come back the specific studies: the Encyclopedia of University Pedagogia; the Glossary of Pedagogia and the project of the International Encyclopedia of Superior Education for the countries of Portuguese language. The text is structuralized since the origin and passes for the evolution of superior education and arrives at the current days. It is divided in three parts: In the first part it has the course as Center of Superior Ensino in Brazil in the periods: Colonial, Imperial and the Old Republic. Since the settling until the Republic, this type of education was priority of the government central office. With the arrival of superior the Real family it only is that they had been created first the course in the country that was characterized as: isolated courses (professionalizing) and directed courses the area of the medicine, engineering, right, agriculture and arts.
The second phase had the University as Center of Superior Ensino in Brazil: Republican period. This stage is characterized by: attempts of democratization ahead to the discriminatory laws; redemocratizao of the nation through the quarrel of models of University that has as consequncia the University Reformation. In the third part the Internationalization of Superior Ensino happens, has seen that, in the decade of 90 the international context passed for innumerable vises of superior education, where the perspective of the State-Nation is being exceeded for the expectation of the internationalization. The author obtained to fulfill with its objective, to divulge the origin and the evolution of Superior Ensino in Brazil, that still starts in colonial period it reaches the current days. It shows through research with wealth of details the transformations that had come to contribute for the consolidation of the Superior Education in our country.