Tendência e desafios da política de educação superior no governo de Jair Messias Bolsonaro

Abstract

The present work has a qualitative character. It studies the politic of higher education in Brazilian contemporaneity. It aims to analyze the tendency and the challenges of politics in higher education in the government of Jair Messias Bolsonaro. Bibliographic research was used as a methodological procedure – resorting to classic and contemporary authors, among them: Marx; Engels (1848); Mészáros (2008); Anderson (1995); Leite (2008); Pereira (2003); Leher (2020); Farage (2021) and Behring; Boschetti (2017) - and documental research, based on empirical material that constitutes the corpus of the research, the analysis of documents that make up the social, legal framework, namely: The Federal Constitution of 1988, amendments EC 95, EC 93; Document: A bridge to the future and the Government Plan by Jair Messias Bolsonaro (primary sources). Newspapers were used as secondary sources, following the example of online newspapers like Uol, G1, Brasil de Fato, and Universidade à Esquerda. For more, we use the online webpage ANDES - Sindicato Nacional dos Docentes das Instituições de Ensino Superior. The first chapter was about the genesis and the historical trajectory of social policy. It was about the social policy in Brazilian contemporaneity, analysis of education policy and the counter-reform of higher education in Brazil was also made. The second chapter discoursed the detour of higher education during the government of Jair Messias Bolsonaro. It is also about the covid-19 pandemic and the forms of confrontation made by the government beyond the analysis of higher education in the context of the covid-19 pandemic (2020 - 2021) and the Politics of Higher Education during the government of Jair Bolsonaro, seeking to identify the challenges and the tendency. It concludes that the tendency of Brazilian higher education policy, in the ultra-neoliberal context, is subsumption to the financial logic of the big financial capital, undergoing a process of precariousness and commodification towards an elitist and exclusive education. The present study also draws attention to an important challenge which is the strengthening of the struggle for higher education as the right, which is secular, free, public, of good quality, and socially referenced. In this context, it becomes essential to organize and fight through the higher education workers' movement and the university student movement on a broad front of resistance against the withdrawal of rights, precariousness dismantling, and commodification of public higher education resulting from the neoliberal offensive that took shape and expression in the 1990s and that deepened in ultra-neoliberal governments, namely: Temer and Jair Messias Bolsonaro.