Grupo banco mundial e governos do partido dos trabalhadores (2003-2016): harmonia para o desmonte da universidade pública no Brasil

Abstract

This thesis identifies and analyzes the foundations, arguments and propositions of the World Bank Group (WBG) for higher education and its incorporation into the Brazilian reality during the period in which the Labor Party (2003-2016) was at the head of the presidency. Thus, a documental study of the World Bank Group's reports from 1990 to 2017 was carried out. The selected documents sought to understand the general line for the process of reform of the State, education and the entire framework that involves the relationship of the WBG with the dependent countries of such international organization. The Bank's performance was read from the line of analysis of Bureaucratic Capitalism, which argues that it is developed a backward type of capitalism in countries that depend on imperialism and this is tied to semi-feudality and semi-colonialism. The WBG is understood as an instrument of imperialism and directs actions in order to deepen the backwardness condition conveyed by the dependence of semi-colonial countries. As far as the higher education is concerned, the documentary research focused on two blocks of documents, the first one produced between 2003, deals with the crisis and the reform of higher education; and the second one, from 2009 to 2011, deals with the university and research model to be developed according to the parameters of excellence in teaching and research in World Class Universities located in imperialist countries. In the Brazilian reality, the focus was on national legislation linked to the Reform of the State Apparatus and higher education during the Labor Party government, under Lula Silva (2003-2010) and Dilma Rousseff (2011-2016). The study concludes that the Labor Party has undertaken reforms that are in perfect harmony with the orientations and guidelines of the WBG. Such reforms have advanced, deepened and perfected the neoliberal policies initiated by Fernando Henrique Cardoso. As a result, the public service was disrupted, workers' rights were withdrawn, the private sector was strengthened through the incorporation of the logic of governance in public management and privatization processes by concession models, public-private partnerships and the use of public funds as means of financing the private sector. In higher education, as a peculiarity of what happens in the general scope of the State, the Labor Party government promoted conditions to favor the private sector through processes of financialization and internationalization of capital in higher education, which was accompanied by the scrapping of public universities, destructuring of the teaching career, precariousness of teaching work, strengthening of the privatization process through partnerships with foundations, social organizations in research and extension activities, removing the universitas character from universities and strengthening the privatizing character in accordance with the orientations of the World Bank Group .