Contrarreformas neoliberais e formação para o trabalho nos Institutos Federais de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia: entre o público e o privado

Abstract

This thesis seeks to analyze how the neoliberal ideology is presented in the set of educational counter-reform policies in progress, inferring to the transformations that intend to be provoked in the specific context of training for work within the scope of Federal Institutes. The study questions whether there is a new rationality that marks the policies related to the provision of professional training within the IFs. To answer this question, the documentary research analyzed laws, decrees, ordinances, programs and official guidelines, budget spreadsheets and indicators of platforms that monitor the Federal Network. These data were compared and grouped into categories linked to changes in management, evaluation and financing; in carrying out partnerships; in the curriculum matrix. The work confirms the initial hypothesis of the research by concluding that there is a new type of privatization underway in Brazil, indicating a change in the nature of institutions, which start to function as non-public state-owned, that is: institutions that remain financed and belonging to the State but who start to organize their activities based on processes, strategies and values that serve the private market. The consequence of this is the offer of cheap and fragmented education and an attack on the teaching category, producing setbacks and losses for the population in general.