O NEOLIBERALISMO NO SISTEMA DE ENSINO

CONTRADIÇÕES, IMPACTOS E DISPUTAS NA EDUCAÇÃO BRASILEIRA

Abstract

ABSTRACT

This article analyzes the presence of neoliberalism in the Brazilian educational system, understanding it as a political, economic, and cultural rationality that influences the organization of educational policies and reshapes the purposes of education. Based on a critical sociology framework, it discusses the consolidation of neoliberalism as a hegemonic paradigm since the 1970s and 1980s and its developments in the Brazilian context. The study examines reforms such as the National Common Curricular Base (BNCC), the New Secondary Education model, and teacher education guidelines, highlighting the incorporation of principles such as efficiency, productivity, and competitiveness. It also addresses the strengthening of large-scale assessments, the expansion of public-private partnerships, and the commodification of education, emphasizing their impacts on curricular standardization, individual accountability of students and teachers, and the intensification of social inequalities. Furthermore, it analyzes how this rationality contributes to the production of subjectivities aligned with market demands. It concludes that neoliberalism operates as a structuring element of contemporary educational policies, while the educational field remains a space of dispute in which resistance and possibilities for critical pedagogical practices committed to education as a social right emerge.

Keywords: neoliberalism. education. educational policies. commodification. inequality.