Regressão conservadora e ameaças às políticas públicas em educação na América Latina

Abstract

This article focuses on the discussion of current public policies in education in the Latin American political context. It seeks to interpret the tensions in the field of education that are expressed as a trend, since they are observed in a number of countries and that reflect advances and setbacks in expanding the right to education. The article is structured in three parts: the introduction; a brief historical resumption including from the constitution of school systems in the region and the issue of the right to education, then going on to focus on the links between education and economic development, state and education reforms in the 1990s until discussions on the post-neoliberalism in Latin America; finally, the text brings a conclusive analysis of conservative regression and the threat to public policies and the right to education today.