O financiamento da educação a serviço da lógica de reprodução do capital: a educação para erradicar a pobreza

Abstract

The present work discusses the pretentious association of education to eradicate poverty, a defense intoned by capital so as not to expose its logic of expansion and still manage to co-opt the consciences of individuals regarding the qualification of their labor force as an engine of social ascension. Faced with this situation, it needs to keep the workers' children in school for the necessary time to have their workforce minimally qualified and, thus, sustain the thesis that it is through education that poverty will be overcome or alleviated when, in fact, capital demands an educated worker. The general objective of this research is to analyze the engendering of capital that indicates education as a solution to poverty and the project of capital to make use of state and private sector funding to maintain the functioning of education. To meet this objective, we present the following specific objectives: a) to make a study on the historical processuality of the impoverishment of the working class; b) discuss the secondarization of the primary function of education in the formation of the social being pointing out the impossibility of an integral formation within the framework of capital; c) examine the scope of the association of education with the fight against poverty, with state funding and the private sector as reinforcements. To account for the object in question, this research adopts a theoretical-bibliographical and documentary basis, in the light of the Marxian- Lukcsian theory, anchored in the studies of Marx (2013); Engels (2010); Huberman (2021), which deal with the nature and functioning of the capitalist system, enabling the understanding of the process of impoverishment of the working class. It is also based on Santos (2017), who discusses poverty and its relationship with education and the exacerbation of the problem in the context of the crisis of capital. We also use the works of Maceno (2017, 2019); Amorim (2018); Mendes Segundo (2005), who contribute to the understanding of the direction of education in capitalist society and the association of education as a solution to the poverty. Using state funding for public education to universalize access and permanence in school for the poor, capital through the World Bank articulator of the Education for All Movement, shifts to education the task of alleviating and overcoming poverty in the future, arguing that quality education is enough that actually prepares the individual for the job market. Finally, we infer that poverty is a product of capitalist society, and it is not possible to overcome it within the limits of this system, much less through education as defended by the apologists of capital, in fact, the tendency is to intensify poverty to continue the reproduction of capital, with education as a trainer of the human capital necessary for production.