Desigualdade social, a educação como mercadoria e a privatização da educação básica brasileira

Abstract

This work presents a literature review on social inequality in Brazil under the advent of neo-liberalism in the late twentieth century and early twenty-first century, aiming to discuss its genesis and possibilities for overcoming them, among which education. However, we ascertained contradictions between the Brazilian educational model and the constitutional principles that have prestigious a growing logic of withdrawal of the state and the transformation of education into a commodity and the consequent privatization of Brazilian basic education.