Abstract

SANTOS, Maria Rosimary Soares dos; MUSSE, Ricardo  and  CATANI, Afrânio Mendes. Deconstructing higher education, human rights and scientific production: Bolsonarism in action. Rev. Elet. Educ. [online]. 2020, vol.14, e4563135.  Epub Oct 29, 2020. ISSN 1982-7199.  https://doi.org/10.14244/198271994563.

The article examines the rise of the extreme right in the country and the arrival of Jair Bolsonaro in power in the 2018 presidential elections. It analyzes the characteristics of Bolsonarism and its government, as well as its proposals and consequences for public higher education and the production of knowledge in Brazil. It identifies the predominance of cultural war within the scope of the Ministry of Education, manifested in the clash - a contradiction that does not exist in other spheres of government - between market defenders, the ultra-liberals who want to privatize the teaching of daycare to post-graduation, and those who intend to safeguard the state control. Discusses the effects of Constitutional Amendment no. 95/2016 in the deepening of the education and science & technology financing crisis by making the flow of public fund resources to rentier elites structural. It proposes that the proposition programs like Future-se aim to change the social function of public universities in the perspective of cultural war, that is, from the perspective of autocracy, anti-scientific thought, commodification, and utilitarianism that guide the actions of the current government. The anti-Enlightenment, autocratic, conservative and denialist foundations of Bolsonarism presuppose the destruction of the public university as an autonomous institution, producing new knowledge and capable of ensuring the freedom of professorship.

Keywords : Bolsomarism; Brazil Higher Education; Scientific production; Human rights.

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