Revista Brasileira de Educação
Print version ISSN 1413-2478
Abstract
SINGER, Paul. Power, politics and education. Rev. Bras. Educ. [online]. 1996, n.01, pp.05-15. ISSN 1413-2478.
Opening conference of the XVIII . Annual Meeting of ANPEd, held in 1995, where two views of educations goals and how to reach them are polarized: democratic citizen education and education for productivity. The first is a result the extensive movement over the last two centuries in favor of equality and which resulted in modem democracy; the second has its origins in neo liberal mystique which renders its services to the state.