Estado capitalista, trabalho docente e educação a distância

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the current configuration of the capitalist State and the resulting consequences for labor relations, specifically, for teaching work in public universities, based on the policy of expanding higher education through Distance Education ( EaD), with the institutionalization of the Open University System of Brazil (UAB). To this end, it assumes historical materialism as a theoretical-methodological support and addresses the current configuration of the capitalist State, which from the 1990s onwards began to follow a managerial tendency, in line with the assumptions of the Third Way neoliberal political project. The advancement of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in the educational field, mainly with the diffusion of distance learning modality, is the result of a conception of the State and a way of functioning of the educational policy defended by the block in power, regardless of the implications negative effects that it may have on work processes and human training.