Abstract

SANTOS, Thiago Rodrigo Fernandes da Silva  and  TAVARES, Ana Cláudia Ribeiro. The World Bank group as a think tank of Brazilian educacional policies: questions to be discussed. Acta Educ. [online]. 2025, vol.47, e66480.  Epub May 01, 2025. ISSN 2178-5201.  https://doi.org/10.4025/actascieduc.v47i1.66480.

This paper is a result of a theoretical reflection on the workings of international organisations in the educational field. It focuses on the World Bank (WB) interventions on politics, and over the planning and management of Brazilian education. Due to it being, nowadays, the biggest external financier of educational projects. According to Fonseca (1998) and Santos (2017), the Bank first aid to Brazilian education was conceded during the 1960s, with its resulting project taking place from 1971 to 1978. Since then, there were more than 60 projects, dealing with tertiary to primary education, combining the workings of the WB, the Brazilian State, and the private sector. Therefore, following the theory of Social Action, we discuss this global group workings, while stating that they can be classified as those of a think tank. As it is, the WB goes beyond being a financing institution, as it advances towards the building of educational policies in the local context of its member-States. As a conclusion, we aim to set the foundations to an epistemological vigilance over this organisation’s contemporary actions, through the perspective already presented.

Keywords : primary education; tertiary education; international organisations; theory of social action; epistemological vigilance.

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