Neoliberalismo e educação: uma interpretação da reforma do ensino médio (Lei n. 13.415/2017)

Abstract

This work analyses Senior High School amends (law number 13.415/2017) trying to understand its acting while bringing about neoliberal doctrines in education areas. Thus, the most influent theoretical currents of the neoliberal doctrines were analyzed and also the critical perspectives to this ideology. Through an analysis of the content, articulating the categories “collateral effect”, “ technical monopoly”, “flexibility” and “professional ideology” we are able to understand the historical place of the amend, its aims and the relation of the education in high school with the making up of manual work for the working market in a neoliberal economy. The amend based upon High School crisis pretext shows up as a tool that incites inequality related to the access to qualified education, associating public education to technical and professional graduation by a flexible and “modern” curriculum, worried in reaching economic development rates.