O Estado regulador e o mercado educador: um estudo sobre o processo de mercantilização da educação infantil no município de Campina Grande/PB.

Abstract

This master’s thesis deals with the actions of the State regulator and the market educator as guiding the process of commodification of children's education, especially, in the municipality of Campina Grande, in the state of Paraíba. It was developed with the general objective of analyzing the commercialization process of early childhood education in the city of Campina Grande / PB; and the specific objectives of analyzing the relationship between State and Market in educational policies, especially for early childhood education; reflecting on the tension between the right and the commodification of early childhood education; and to identify the constraints that led to the predominance of enrollments in the pre-school of the city of Campina Grande in the private network, mainly, in the period from 2012 to 2016. The research, from the perspective of historical-dialectical materialism, was carried out in three different moments, namely: 1) living contemplation of the object, at which time the first statistical data were collected, analysis of documents and observations for the delimitation of the object; 2) analysis of the phenomenon, counting on bibliographical research and elaboration of script of interviews; 3) analysis of the concrete reality of the object, consisting of a moment that permeated the whole process of writing, with emphasis on the analysis of statistical and empirical data. Studies have revealed the liberal-bourgeois matrix of the capitalist state as the basis for the constant bond between the public and private spheres, especially in education, unfolding in the process of commodification experienced by children's education in the city of Campina Grande/PB. Matrix this one that outlined the social formation of Brazil and, consequently, the basis of national education in the form of public-private partnerships to the present days. Making clear the tension between social law and the commercialization of education, which, through the mechanisms of dissemination of mercantile ideology, concretized by state action and private apparatus of hegemony, culminates in the construction of consensus around the market deity.