Neoliberalismo e educação de qualidade na perspectiva do trabalho

Abstract

The main idea of this work is the quality of education offered to lower and oppressed classes, and the problem raised is the following: is it possible for the State to offer quality education in the work perspective? This research is theoretical and based on the social theory of Marx and his followers, such as Lukacs, Mészáros, Lessa and Tonet. Its purpose is to verify the hypothesis of the existence, in a capitalist society, of a quality education for the oppressed. Though it is an ontological impossibility, it doesn’t eliminate the historical possibility of the accomplishment of this quality education by the working class. The hegemonic ideology of education disseminated by the class does not allow access to an education that has the emancipation of man as a goal. Instead, the school has as its objective the establishment of the workforce, and especially the transmission of ideology through which are set values, ideas and behaviors combined with the interests of the capital. The analysis of the quality of education for some theorists, for example, Lebanon, and Demo, with retaining the Marxist ontology, appears that for them citizenship represents the maximum horizon; in such, education is accompanied by various theoretical and pedagogical proposals — democracy, constructivism, methodological pluralism, distance education, science, textbook, curriculum and interdisciplinary work — which, are configured as an output to a democratic education and quality standards for "all".