From Technique to Science: Building a Scientific Secretarial Culture

A public consultation held in 2009 by the Ministry of Education’s Higher Education Secretariat deemed the scientific production of bachelor’s degree courses in Executive Secretarial to be insufficient, questioning whether they should retain the title of bachelor’s degree or whether they should become just technical or technologist courses. The episode resulted in academic and professional mobilization around the issue, proving and supporting the continuity of higher education. This panorama was the inspiration for the present work, which seeks to analyze the culture of scientific production in Executive Secretarial. To achieve this goal, the CNPq Research Groups Platform and the Lattes Platform were used as data sources, in which 11 research groups in the secretarial area were identified. The analyses extracted make it possible to quantitatively analyze the history and context of scientific research in Executive Secretarial, taking into account the development of science and academic research in Brazil, and more specifically the panorama of secretarial scientific research.