Abstract

CRUZ, Rosana Evangelista da. World Bank and education policy: cooperation or expansion of international capital interests?. Educ. Rev. [online]. 2003, n.22, pp.51-75. ISSN 0104-4060.

The current economical context shows up a crisis of the capitalist system, in which the representatives of the interests of the international capital, particularly the World Bank and IMF, intervene on political and economical organization of developing countries, from the central countries perspective of interests expansion through politics that seek commercial and financial opening, absence of labor rules and the weight decrease of State on society. The interests of international capital also permeate education proposals, which are spread by the World Bank through agreements called international cooperation”, more precisely loans which are used by the Bank to impose models of education policy, projects and norms and rules that condition the partnership process implementation and institutes a logic that is favorable to market opening and the propagation of new-liberal ideology. The present article approaches to the context of intervention progresses of International Organisms, the report of the World Bank, the conception of social politics adopted and the effective presence of that organism in the education politics, for example the Northeast Project for the Basic Education and Fund of Development of the School (Fundescola).

Keywords : Education Politics; World Bank; Fundescola.

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