Abstract

SILVA, Renata Valério; MOREIRA, Jani Alves da Silva  and  VOLSI, Maria Eunice França. Functional state and structural adjustment policies in Brazilian Basic Education. Rev. Diálogo Educ. [online]. 2021, vol.21, n.68, pp.317-341.  Epub May 11, 2021. ISSN 1981-416X.  https://doi.org/10.7213/1981-416x.21.068.ao02.

The text aims to analyze the concept of functional state and structural adjustment policies for basic education in the context of intensification of neoliberalism in Brazil. It refers to the results of an exploratory research of bibliographic and documentary character. To give an account of the proposal, the text analyzes the historical and political assumptions of basic education financing and the pertinent historical issues, which triggered the intensification of neoliberal structural adjustment policies in basic education. It was concluded that the structural adjustment policies are the result of governmental actions, which, in turn, go against what is appropriate for public services. The articulations between the private and public sectors have resulted in structural adjustment policies that favor the economy and the interests of the Brazilian elite and, in this scenario, public basic education is seen as a lucrative commodity. Which, in turn, favors the culture that the private sector presents results, while the public sector is seen as inefficient. A perspective of market logic put in the educational system as a solution to the problems faced by public education, which results in the devaluation of the public sector.

Keywords : Functional State; Structural adjustment policies; Education Financing; Neoliberalism; Basic education.

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