The Temer Government and Brazilian Education: Reasons Not to Forget the Decenary of the 2016 Coup
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https://doi.org/10.17058/rea.33.20413Keywords:
coup d'état, Educational Reforms, neoliberalism, privatizationAbstract
Situated within the field of the History of Education, this article reflects on the decade since the coup d'état that removed Dilma Rousseff from the presidency of the Republic, and analyzes the legacy of Michel Temer, her successor, for Brazilian education. It recognizes the ultraliberal nature of the political project implemented from 2016 onward, in order to identify the actions of the federal Executive that shaped the educational policies in the country at that time, the negative consequences of which persist to this day. In the first part, it discusses the fiscal austerity that prevented the fulfillment of the National Education Plan (2014-2024). In the second part, it features the privatizing agenda of the federal administration and of the Ministry of Education in particular. In the third part, it highlights the authoritarianism that characterized the Temer’s government, which repressed and silenced popular representation organizations in order to benefit the educational market. It concludes that, despite the changes that have taken place in the last decade, policy project introduced under Temer remains active. The sources - laws, decrees, guidelines, constitutional amendments, scientific studies and opinion articles - are analyzed through the lens of historical-dialectical materialism.
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