O projeto neoliberal: implicações na percepção do capital humano e seu impacto na educação brasileira após a redemocratização do país

Abstract

When analyzing the investments made by Brazilian governments in educational policies after the redemocratization, we seek to measure the degree of subjection to the neoliberal policies imposed. The objective of this work is to identify and problematize the economic relationship with Brazilian educational policies in the medium term. Our initial hypothesis is that the "educational reforms" that occurred in Brazil from the 1990s onwards, including the National Education Plan and the creation of the Fund for Maintenance and Development of Elementary Education and Teacher Enhancement (Fundef), were in line with this neoliberal wave. Through a comparative approach, we gathered the characteristics of Brazilian governments that, through their praxis, favored the advancement of the neoliberal model, particularly in the Brazilian educational model. We identified in the "human capital theory", created by some economists and widely disseminated throughout the world, the ideal to be archived by education in Brazil. However, we addressed the various contradictions of this theory presented by social scientists such as Pierre Bourdieu, among others, that go against this "economicist theory". This work will serve us as a tool to point out these contradictions.