INTEGRAL EDUCATION AND GOVERNANCE IN THE CONTEXT OF “ROLL-OUT NEOLIBERALISM”

Abstract

In this article, attention is paid to the comprehensive education curriculum in the context outlined, based on Stephen Ball's studies, as roll-out neoliberalism, which has network governance as its main characteristic, reconfiguring public-private management beyond the limits of the nation-state. In this context, the offer of comprehensive education arises mainly from public-private partnerships, greatly leveraging the third sector in Brazil, particularly from 2006 onwards and from the Compromisso Todos pela Educação movement. The following programs are taken as an empirical reference: i) More Education (SME), supported by public resources, voluntary work (graduates and any people in the community) and business philanthropy; ii) Escola Cidadã Integral program (Paraíba), whose management is advised by the Institute for the Responsibility for Education (ICE), based on People Management Technology (TGP); student leadership; strategic planning; and strict evaluation. In Paraíba, the programs are recent and the results are not measurable. In Pernambuco, where ICE has been operating since 2004, the Education Development Index (IDEB) rose from the 22nd position to the 1st in 2017. The main criticisms are of being guided by the logic of the market, strong control / regulation of professionals , processes and students and non-politicization of subjects. However, schools and their subjects are not mere reproducers, per se, of what the business and political elite determines them to be, but microspaces and subjects that resignify / re-politicize curricula, making the effects and results less predictable.