Abstract

CICHACZEWSKI, João Carlos  and  SILVA, Mariléia Maria da. The FNDEP and the social movements around the BRICS: an experience from the past to inspire the struggles of the future. J. Pol. Educ-s [online]. 2024, vol.18, e95977.  Epub Jan 15, 2025. ISSN 1981-1969.  https://doi.org/10.5380/jpe.v17i0.95977.

This article is the result of documentary and exploratory research. It aims to present some of the experiences of the National Forum in Defense of Public Schools (FNDEP) in shaping and contesting educational policies in Brazil, particularly from the late 1980s through the 1990s. Based on this, the study seeks to problematize the spaces of articulation among peoples within the BRICS bloc today, understanding it as an aggregating front for Global South countries in the face of the U.S. hegemonic offensive. The article examines the background of the FNDEP, considering it a relevant private hegemonic apparatus, in Gramsci's terms, and the debates it led during the National Constituent Assembly, as well as throughout the processes of discussing and passing the Law of Guidelines and Bases of Education (LDB) and the National Education Plan (PNE) in the 1990s. This analysis demonstrates that the FNDEP developed a method of drafting, organizing, and intervening that inspires educational fights in Brazil and other Latin American countries. In this context, BRICS emerges as a potential space to catalyze resistance movements and confrontations, reigniting the struggle for the self-determination of peoples.

Keywords : Educational policies, FNDEP; LDB; PNE; BRICS.

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