Do Passado ao future-se: a privatização do ensino superior público no Brasil

Abstract

This research aims to analyze the constitution and development of Public Higher Education in Brazil from the understanding of the role that education - and more directly public universities - played during the political moments that the country went through and in the face of economic transformations and the development of Brazilian dependent capitalism. Through the analysis of trends and public policies adopted by different governments for Higher Education, the objective is to highlight the privatization process and the subjection of higher education to private interests. In this sense, the Future-se Program is analyzed because it is considered as a maximum expression of this process and aims to institutionalize mercantilizing measures, which find fertile ground in the current moment of capital structural crisis and, more precisely in Brazil, with the rise of the authoritarian political project Bolsonarista, who undertakes to deepen the dismantling of public services. This research is justified by the need to understand the crises that Brazilian universities are going through and the role that higher education has for capitalism and for the interests of the ruling class in the current historical moment.