Abstract

BRASAO, Mauricio dos Reis  and  ARAUJO, José Carlos Souza. Technocratic education: social control and the reproduction of structural inequalities. Cad. Hist. Educ. [online]. 2025, vol.24, e2025-52.  Epub Jan 12, 2026. ISSN 1982-7806.  https://doi.org/10.14393/che-v24-e2025-52.

This interdisciplinary study investigates technicality in Brazilian politics and education from 1968 to the end of the 1970s, through a qualitative and documentary approach based on Fazenda (2013). During the civil-military dictatorship in Brazil, educational technicality was more than a pedagogical approach, as it was applied for ideological control and maintenance of authoritarian power. Implemented in educational reforms, it prioritized technical efficiency over critical education, using education to conform and repress dissidence. In an attempt to sustain the regime, this perspective also contributed to its decline, by ignoring the cultural forces that resisted its imposition. As in the past, the approach analyzed subordinates education to economic needs, reinforces inequalities and limits the critical education of students.

Keywords : Education; Technicality; Technicist pedagogy; Civil-military dictatorship..

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