Reforma da Educação Superior nos Anos de Contra-revolução Neoliberal : de Fernando Henrique Cardoso a Luís Inácio Lula da Silva

• Autor(a) principal: Lima, Kátia Regina de Souza
• Data de Publicação: 2005
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da Universidade Federal Fluminense (RIUFF)
• Texto Completo: https://app.uff.br/riuff/handle/1/17744
• topic: Ensino superior; Reforma universitária; Universidades e faculdades; Brasil; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::EDUCACAO

The structural crisis of capitalism in the 1970's, marked by a deep recession, combining low growth and high inflation, drives the international bourgeoisie to work out strategies to cope with this crisis articulating the following dimensions: the restructuring of the productive sphere, the redefinition of the role of national States and the dissemination of the bourgeois project of sociability. Such dimensions, which are the current manifestations of a prolonged counter-revolution, are operated by neoliberal policies and constitute the basis of the hegemonic project of economic globalization and "information society , disseminated by the political agents of capital, especially international agencies such as the World Bank, UNESCO and the World Trade Organization. An examination of the current configuration of capitalism is an indispensable task for an analysis of the reformulation of the current educational policy in peripheral countries, inasmuch as such reformulation, especially of higher education, is justified by the need of adapting such countries to the new globalized world order and the information society . School education will be treated in the last decade of the previous century and early this century as an effective strategy for relieving the growing and deepening poverty in peripheral capitalist countries, constituting an international capital security policy; as a promising investment area for capital in crisis, in its endless search for new markets and new areas of profitable exploitation, as well as an important strategy for disseminating the bourgeoisie's world view, in its constant struggle to conform minds and hearts to its image and semblance . This is the framework of the reformulation of higher education in Brazil in the years of neoliberal counter-revolution. It started in Collor de Mello (1990-1992) and Itamar Franco (1993-1994) governments, with some continuities and changes compared to the reformulation imposed by the bourgeois-military regime; was accelerated in the two periods of Fernando Henrique Cardoso governments (1995-2002) and intensified in the first two years of Lula da Silva government (2003-2004). This reformulation maintains the dependent pattern of higher education which is a feature in the history of Brazilian education, increasing, on the one hand, an internal privatization process in Brazilian State universities, and, on the other, an expansion of private institutions in higher education, creating, as a result, the basis for deepening Brazil's dependent capitalist insertion in the world economy and intensifying the neocolonial convertion process.