EMPRESÁRIOS E EDUCAÇÃO: CONSENTIMENTO E COERÇÃO NA POLÍTICA EDUCACIONAL DO ENSINO MÉDIO

Abstract

This study belongs to the Research Line “History, Politics, Education” of the Postgraduate Program in Education of the Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul (PPGEdu/FAED/UFMS), having as object of research the disputes for high school reform projects, with emphasis on the performance of national business sectors. The general objective of this dissertation is to analyze the correlation of forces in dispute in the process of conception of the Bill (PL) nº 6.840/2013 and in the discussion of Provisional Measure (MP) nº 746/2016, focusing on the performance of the business community, in view of its current hegemony in educational policies. As specific objectives, we identify the business propositions for school education, and for high school in particular; further investigating their strategies to build and ensure their hegemony in the field of education. Specifically about high school policies, we analyze the disputes between the different organic intellectuals in each context, especially at the public hearings held. The research has bibliographical and documentary character, observing the precepts of the historical and dialectical materialism. Therefore, a survey of documents from the legislative framework of the reform proposals was carried out, as well as the selection of programmatic documents from entrepreneurs and publications by researchers on the subject. From the development of the research, it was possible to show that the context of the creation of PL nº 6.840/2013 meant the opening of a new field of disputes by high school, where the hegemony of the business community first occurred. Later, in a process of reorganization, it was possible for counter-hegemonic organic intellectuals to prevent the advance of some proposals defended by businessmen. However, in a different political and economic conditions, the business project for high school returned in other bases in MP nº 746/2016. In this scenario, corporate hegemony prevailed, and it was not possible for other organic intellectuals to materialize their demands, since within the National Congress, and at the broader social level, there was an unfavorable correlation of forces.