INTELLECTUALS AND UNIVERSITY SOCIOLOGICAL PERCEPTIONS FROM A PEDAGOGICAL EXPERIENCE

The article discusses the thematic of intellectuals and their relation with the society from privileged locus in which they actuate: the university. In the ambit of the subject matter offered by Unicamp, Especial Topics in Social Sciences Applied to Education - EL 142 (under my responsibility in the first semester of 2015) and considering the initial inquietude above mentioned, was proposed like theme to the course the reflexion about the formation of the modern universities, combined, the performance of the intellectuals in their boards. Problematize, with effect, the function or the paper those intellectuals exercises at this moment and the validity of status imputed to these individuals like privileged interpreters of reality. The dialogue with the specific bibliography suggested to the discipline, the perception of the students with regard to thematic proposed - obtained through discussions at class and by course's evaluation, also my own reflexive auto analysis of experience occur the semester, configures the marks in which the article seats.