The configuration of private-market agenda of Higher Education’s expansion

• Autor(a) principal: Solano Souza, Allan
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Layson Ferreira Leão, Bruno, de Aquino Freitas, Thayse Mychelle
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Linguagens, Educação e Sociedade (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufpi.br/index.php/lingedusoc/article/view/4382
• topic: Expansão; Mercantilização; Conjuntura; Educação Superior; Expansión; Mercantilización; Coyuntura; Educación Superior; Expansion; Commodification; Conjuncture; Higher Education

This study was carried out based on a critical and social reflection on the phenomena that permeate the public funds transfer to the private sector of higher education. As a research path, it adopts the assumptions of the conjuncture analysis technique according to Souza (1985). In regards of that approach, events, actors and scenarios are prioritized towards the determination of the private-mercantile agenda in Higher Education. More specifically, it discusses the apprehension context of the ultraneoliberal dynamics that established Temer’s and Bolsonaro administrations (2016-2021), and questions how they provide the necessary support for the implementation of the agenda of commodification and financialization of Higher Education. The study concludes that Bolsonarist management undermined the resources for maintaining public universities, generating a growing process of deregulation regarding the recognition and maintenance of undergraduate and graduate courses; the deautonomization of these institutions; and the astute sizing of resources from the public fund to conglomerates and private educational entities, meeting private and marketing interests.