CONSERVATISM, NEOLIBERALISM AND BASIC EDUCATION IN BRAZIL (2013-2018)
Conservatism; neoliberalism; basic education.
This paper aims to understand the new political configuration that has been designed in Brazil in the last five years (2013-2018) from the emergence of conservatism in a context of neoliberalism. This research has a historical character, because it is a reconstitution of the facts that have been developing until the present moment. In order to explain the trajectory of the theme of this research, I tried to list some historical events that contributed to the constitution of the current political, economic and social framework, such as the June journeys in 2013, the 2015 Protests, Dilma Rousseff's Impeachment Process and the 2018 elections. In addition, he brought some reflections about neoliberal government in Brazil from Fernando Collor de Melo to the transition between the governments of Michel Temer and Jair Bolsonaro. I start from the conception that we live in an era of the rise of conservative liberal values. My understanding is that there is, in the Brazilian cultural roots, a conservatism that has always been present in discourses and practices, but that from the events of 2013 is on the rise combined with expanding neoliberalism. The research methodology used until this stage of the research is constituted in three main axes: a) theoretical discussion and bibliographical revision, b) analysis of official documents (MDB government program, Jair Bolsonaro government program, “School Without Party” project, Provisional Measure 746/2016, Constitutional Amendment 95/201, National Curricular Common Base (BNCC) and certain points of the Federal Constitution itself), c) Systematization of data collected in documents and reports on education, neoliberalism and violence. And analysis of magazines and news from major media vehicles. From the theoretical foundation, among many authors, I would like to highlight: Alendusser (1985), Arendt (1989), Borón (1994, 2008), Cambi (1999), Fontes (2000), Silva (2010), Silva et al (2014), Singer (2012), Germano (2011), Konder (1977), Löwy (2015,2016), Miguel (2004), Miguel and Biroli ), Souza (2016 and 2017b), Souza (2017a), Teixeira (1956, 1969) and Vitullo (2011). The reflections to date point to the perception that there is, in fact, a new phase in Brazilian history marked by a return of conservatism clothed with hatred and intolerance to the "different" allied to the neoliberal logic that directly affects the field of basic education.