Trabalho docente na educação superior brasileira: mercantilização das relações e heteronomia acadêmica

The article analyzes the flex contractual relations of teaching in institutions of higher education; the transformations in teaching, research and extension and the changes in the culture of the institutions of higher education in Brazil. For such, the main legal documents had been consulted and diverse official pointers, taking as basic axle of analysis, the mercantilization of higher education, in the landmark of the changes happened in the world work, from years 1970 in world-wide scale