Democracia e educação: uma análise da crítica às políticas educacionais do Brasil (1995-2002).
Resumo
The Brazilian marxist current educators who criticize the educational policies from the 1995
to 2002 Fernando Henrique Cardoso governments, in Brazil, start analysing about the
circumstances of a neo-liberal government, strongly marked by the weight of international
financial agencies which impose educational policies profiles that in order to guarantee the
capitalist accumulation, these policies have a character of strong exclusion. We highlight
Gaudêncio Frigotto and Pablo Gentili, as expressions from this group of educators. The
question they point out as fundamental is the lack of democracy in the relations between the
State and society and also in the several social instances, that prevent from the possibility of
the great majority of Brazilians characterize themselves as citizens. This work recognizes all
the criticized elements as legitimate, but seek to problemize the format how to elaborate the
critique itself, because there is in its formulations a bet in democracy and as an outcome, a
belief in education as a social changing area, elements proper to the liberal thinking, that
reinforce the myth of a redempting school. Considering the affiliation of the authors to
marxism, we indicate the inheritage of social-democracy and the determined use they make of
marxism, as the closest identification with the theoretical formulation from the authors
studied here.