THE DEMOCRATIC SPEECH WITHIN THE MOVEMENT OF NETWORKS FOR ACCREDITATION AND EVALUATION OF HIGHER EDUCATION

This study had the objective of making an interpretative analysis of the democracy perspective present in the speech of the actors from the networks of agencies for quality evaluation and accreditation of higher education in Latin America through the interlocution with members from the Latin networks RIACES - Ibero-American Network for the Accreditation of the Quality of Higher Education and of RANA Network - Network of National Accreditation Agencies of Mercosur. The study referred to theoretical matrices as inspiration sources of the democracy category according with studies by Avritzer (2003); Barber (2003); Bobbio (2015); Coutinho (1979); Sader (2012). The methodological choice was the qualitative and interpretative social investigation (ROSENTHAL, 2014). Among the findings, it stands out the understanding that to represent the possibility of emancipating processes within the movement of the networks for the accreditation and quality evaluation in Latin America implies the decolonization of the democratic concept and practice,