Abstract

ALTMANN, Helena. Influências do Banco Mundial no projeto educacional brasileiro. Educ. Pesqui. [online]. 2002, vol.28, n.01, pp.77-89. ISSN 1517-9702.

The strong influence exerted by the World Bank (BIRD) on the Brazilian macroeconomic politics extends over various sectors, among them the education. In view of the marked ascendancy of this institution in Brazil, this paper aims at analyzing the proposals characterized by such input to the education sector. Initially, the general features of the educational reform defended by BIRD are presented, and in a second part of the paper the convergence between BIRD's proposals and the education project implemented in this country by Fernando Henrique Cardoso's government are pointed out. In the mapping out of this project the references adopted are the government proposal of 1994, information collected from the Ministry of Education website, as well as statements and articles by the Education Minister Paulo Renato de Souza. The third part of this paper refers to the Basic Education Evaluation System (Saeb), and to the education strategies presented by the Minister of Education in view of the results of the tests applied in 1999. The paper concludes that the Brazilian education project cannot be analyzed just from the quantitative data presented by the government since, seen by themselves, such data are not sufficient to analyze the effects of the expansion of the education system. Such expansion must be analyzed considering the changes in its effects in different contexts. With the expansion of the education system what is seen is not the elimination of exclusion, but the creation of new hierarchy mechanisms and new forms of exclusion scattered along the process of schooling and social life.

Keywords : World Bank; Brazilian Education; Evaluation; Inclusion.

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