As Parcerias Público-Privadas no Programa de Educação para Todos: uma análise marxista

Abstract

This essay involves an in-depth exam of the public-private partnerships in Education and their connection to the Global Program Education for All (EPT) and to the Brazilian corporate movement All for Education. We initially start with the assumption that the educational complex is one of the main mechanisms used by capital for the association and approximation between the State and the Corporate Sector. We argue, in our investigation, that the national Education is more and more connected to the private sector through partnerships in which businessmen attain political and economic support from the capitalist State to manage the current Educational policy, presented, in this way, as the necessary and efficient alternative for reaching the proclaimed quality in Education. Accordingly, everything indicated that the corporate proposal of Education reaffirms its condition as a merchandise, submitting in a more intense way the Education of the working class to the orders of big capital. Our purpose is to understand the process of insertion and conditioning of the public-private partnerships in the Brazilian Education. To do that, we take as a theoretical-methodological standard the Marxist criticism in an ontological perspective, resorting to the Marxism that allows us to understand the movement of the social being in its complex contraditions and rich mediations. This investigation involves, therefore, a documental and bibliographic research, from the contextualization and critical evaluation of the public-private partnerships, in which are articulated the determinations of the international organizations and the consequent institutional reforms carried out by the Brazilian State, tracking, also, their consequences in the Educational policies. Following this initial movement, it has become possible to understand that the public-private partnerships are used in the Brazilian Education to abide by the international standard, entrenching themselves even more to the private sector for the intermediation of the referred partnerships as a source of financing and gateway of the corporate command in the Educational sector.