A contra-história do discurso da liberdade de escolha: o caso de São Gonçalo/RJ como expressão nacional das políticas educacionais para a juventude da classe trabalhadora

Abstract

This thesis, produced in the Political Research Line, Rights and Inequalities of the Graduate Program in Education – Formative Processes and Social Inequalities - of the Faculty of Teacher Training (PPGedu/FFP/UERJ), in the Research Group Public Policies and Education of Youth and Adults of the Working Class (PPEJAT), arises as a collaboration of reflections elaborated on educational public policies for Brazilian youth, in particular in the municipality of São Gonçalo (SG), metropolitan region of Rio de Janeiro (RJ), after the institutional rupture of 2016, and aims to scrutinize the resignification of the ideological sign "freedom", embodied in the "freedom of choice", disseminated by the counter-reformers of the neoliberal State to young people, in the last stage of basic education. To this end, it had as empirical corpus documents: legislation for High School (EM); guidelines of the New Paths Program; World Bank reports for youth schooling; Timesheets of the Metropolitan Regional II/SEEDUC/RJ, which presented the curricular components for the EM (CC). These sources were analyzed in the light of Marxian and Marxist dialectics, theoretically referenced by Marx, Engels, Gramsci, Losurdo, Bakhtin, taking into account the categories: capital-labor-education-freedom. We conclude that the ideology of the discursivity of freedom camouflages, in São Gonçalo, offensive strategies to Regular High School (EMR), since it incorporates in the timetables of this segment, CC, outlined for Professional and Technological Education (EPT). In this, it shapes and perpetuates social inequalities, and thus consolidates the counter-history of freedom.