EVALUATION OF HIGHER EDUCATION: REFORM OF THINKING IN THE ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM COURSE

With the objective of reaching the quality in higher education, the Brazilian government implemented the National Higher Education Assessment System (SINAES), which qualifies graduation courses in a conservative way. At the same time, many universities are characterized by the adoption of the complexity vision as basis for the education transformation. In this context, this article aims to analyze the impacts of the evaluation promoted by SINAES in graduation courses whose education experiences have relation with transformative pedagogical movements. The research, that used methods of documental and historical analysis and that has as conceptual basis the Edgar Morin's paradigm of complexity, revealed that SINAES doesn't consider innovative approaches aligned with the current needs, and that experiences such as the one of the course of Architecture obtained positive results. Therefore, it is important to rethink the evaluation systems, incorporating complexity theory for an including vision of higher education.