Entre conceitos e acordos: as políticas públicas para a educação à (sob a) luz do banco mundial.

Abstract

This paper aims to discuss the impacts that neoliberal economy has caused in Brazilian society, based on the critical analysis of the last report of the World Bank about Brazil. More specifically, we are concerned here with the consequences for the scope of education. We identify the concepts of society and education which are disseminated by neoliberal ideology through the report. We deal with the relationship between these concepts and the assertions and orientations from the report. In addition, we conducted a careful critical reading of this report, whereby we recognize that the financial market’s interests have endangered the vital role of the public university, by accusing it of being inefficient. However, the real condition of the public university in Brazil links it to an indelible role in the construction of a national knowledge and in the social promotion of millions of Brazilian students.Finally, we make questions about the disastrous impacts that these guidances has caused and they will cause in the Brazilian citizens’ welfare, we call them for resistance.