Lulism and the change of teaching work nature

Abstract

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14244/198271991016

The recent history of Brazil, and Brazilian education in particular, is permeated by continuities, discontinuities or disruptions resulting from changes in the economy, in the structure of the state apparatus, in civil society, in the republican institutions and in the constitution of the individual sociability. This text supports the hypothesis that in the last two decades public Brazilian federal universities have become executive agencies for public policies of the State. It develops the argument from a historical background dating back to the 1980s, to affirm the central hypothesis in two dimensions: (1) the commodification of knowledge and (2) mass certification. In the first case, it finds a direction of scientific production to areas that are economical priorities, and in the second dimension, aimed at the poorest social sectors, the expansion of the system aims to provide more manpower for the execution of precarious work, at the same time that constitutes a structural call for the production of hegemony in reverse. It concludes by analyzing that the changing role of the public university strengthens the peculiar form of hegemony in Brazilian history today: Lulism.

Keywords: Higher Education Reform, Financial Predominance, Lulism