Imperialismo e educação: a relação entre a educação pública e as fundações e institutos empresariais no Brasil (1990 - 2014)

Abstract

The central objective of this research is to investigate the interventions of institutions and foundations in the educational process of the Brazilian public schools against the backdrop of the world imperialist project that defines international policies for education (Jomtien, World Bank). It seeks to reflect on the influence of the market in the educational process and the mechanisms of partnerships that allow the intrusion of the private capital in the definition of the projects of the public schools. It seeks to unravel the contradictions existing in this exchange between public and private, in order to overcome the illusions of common sense, the uncritical and apologetic view that justifies the actions of these business groups. It is a question of analysing the events from the historical totality, which involves the orders: macroeconomic, political, ideological and social to explain elements of school daily, that is, it starts from the particular empiric and fed by the theory to explain the general relations based on historical materialism. The empirical data are explained on the basis of documents, bibliographies, booklets and materials produced by the companies that use the programs. The studies allowed to infer that the companies, their foundations and institutes realize partnerships with the public schools, crossing them with innumerable forms of projects. Many companies choose to set up their own schools or help finance these ventures. The company distributes free or sells to the municipalities products and services of its companies, material elaborated according to its political ideology, without the participation of the interested ones (teachers) that receive this material for part of the daily life of the school, so that of the pedagogical political project and The curriculum are directly and indirectly interfered with by these agents. The thesis is divided into six sections: the first deals with the question of imperialism and its new forms of domination; The second deals with how imperialism organizes the present world through neoliberalism; The third section deals with organizations of business foundations in the context of neoliberal imperialist restructuring; The fourth discusses the consequences of these policies in the context of school education; The fifth section analyses programs of foundations and business institutes and the sixth and final section evaluates the pedagogical materials distributed in public schools in Brazil. All this course is aimed at demonstrating the thesis we defend: in the current phase of imperialism, there is a relationship between foundations and business institutions and public education in Brazil, which redefines the public / private relationship in defence of the interests of the capitalist order and which dilute The class struggle.