This study is on the founding of a new university in the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil, and the socio-educational implications facing the “reforma’’ of higher education and its complex laws and objectives. It is very clear from the introduction that the author has a good grasp of the historical development and its consequences for higher education in Brazil, and that he is using an adequate method to study the founding of the university in question.
However, one cannot avoid noting a certain shyness in the treatment of the local decision-makers, their political influence, and their possible relations with the central power. The bibliography ignores some important Brazilian educators who have written extensively on the subject, but includes a lot of Prof. R. P. Atcon’s generalities, as well as some excellent material on the area by G. Kohlhepp.
