Financiamento da educação superior privada no Brasil: particularidades da relação entre Estado e empresariado (2003-2011)

Abstract

This thesis' main objective is to analyze the financing policy of private higher education in Brazil between 2003 and 2011, understanding the contours of State intermediation in the relationship between public funds, financial capital and the desires of the business community. The justification for this study focused, therefore, on the need to understand the peculiarity regarding the expansion of private higher education in the period between 2003 and 2011, a period corresponding to the emergence of a new (historical) organizing bloc of the Brazilian political system that highlighted several particularities, among which it was especially important to analyze the significant changes in the direction of higher education in Brazil. In our analysis, we mainly consider government action that, through specific mechanisms, not only, but to a considerable extent, converged with the interests of capital, in a scenario marked by the organization of politics based on an interclass pact. With regard to the process of financialization of higher education in Brazil, we have sought to demonstrate the relevance of building an institutional legal framework within the scope of the Brazilian State, through the implementation of Ordinances, Decrees, Laws, among other instruments, which directed the direction of policies for higher education implemented in recent decades. Therefore, we consider it essential to analyze the movement of businesspeople with regard to organized action with a view to direct interference and multiple efforts in the context of their respective demands in the construction of educational policies. In view of the proposals of this fraction of the bourgeois class, we list for analysis the movement made by the Brazilian Association of Higher Education Supporters (ABMES), It is an organization whose articulation with the State has followed the flow of different governments and managed to ensure its agendas in multiple ways, including propagating such interference through its documents, publications and official website. Finally, we highlight that the category “contradiction” was central to our investigation and that, although with many limits, we believe that the research process, more than providing answers to the initial questions, pushed us towards new possibilities of studies in the face of ongoing transformations. in the concreteness of current reality.