Abstract

KLAUS, Viviane  and  LEANDRO, João Abel Pasini. Connections between neoliberalism, politics and education: teaching at issue in Latin America. Conjectura: filos. e Educ. [online]. 2020, vol.25, edossie.14. ISSN 2178-4612.  https://doi.org/10.18226/21784612.v25.dossie.14.

In this paper, Neoliberalism is understood as a complex phenomenon, constantly transforming itself, displaying a rationale. Education is defended as one of the central elements for the application and enacting of political technologies that constitute the neoliberal rationale. The article is a result of the findings of two researches, which aim at constructing an analytical net of discourses about education in contemporaneity. It consists of a macro-analysis – campaigns and projects focused on teaching provided by the Latin American Net for the Education (Reduca) – and its discursive developments in a microcontext – especially in the Brazilian election campaigns. The analyses consider the articulation between the Reduca’s campaigns and projects and the politicalelectoral Brazilian proposals as a set of materializing and constituting practices of the neoliberal Latin American educational agenda. They establish “the continued education and the appreciation of teachers” as an emerging analytical category in the analyzed documents. Such a category exerts a vital role in the consolidation of the rationale in the neoliberal project, resulting in several forms to approach Education through the (de)professionalization and the (de)legitimation of teachers’ role. It is concluded that the resignification of “good” pedagogical practices in the contemporaneity is constituted through processes of teachers’ accountability, mainly based on the neoliberal premise of the individual performance present in the Brazilian electoral political discourses, as well as in the business context. In addition, there is a significant participation of business people in education in different countries in Latin America, so that understanding how Education has been reconceptualized through these and other political and educational nets is fundamental for us to denaturalize the discourses promoted by such nets, which materialize the contemporary educational agenda.

Keywords : Neoliberalism; Politics; Education; Teaching; Latin America.

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