CAPITAL PRODUCTIVE RESTRUCTURING AND ITS MATERIALIZATION IN THE BRAZILIAN HIGHER EDUCATIONAL POLICY: FROM THE REFORM OF THE STATE APPARATUS TO THE FUTURE-SE

Abstract

This article discusses how the corrosion of capital accumulation bases has motivated a productive restructuring carried out by countless reforms undertaken by the State with a view to making the transition from the bureaucratic management model to the managerial model. In the educational policy of Brazilian higher education, its most evident manifestation is the subsumption of the State's administrative management to business logic, whose decisions are aligned with the market and disregard the right to citizenship as a collective good. That said, it is discussed about which model of education underlies what is guided by these reforms intensified since the 1990s, in Brazil. Currently, the persistence of these adjustments is embodied in propositions such as the Future-se, whose objective is to expand the role of the private sector to fund research and increase the budget of universities and federal higher education institutes. The need to modernize these institutions is alleged, although the objective is, in fact, to change the form of financing, through private funds, as well as to favor university management via Social Organizations. From a methodological point of view, the study uses bibliographic research as a support, in order to clarify how the process of capital productive restructuring globally, from the 1970s onwards, motivated reforms in the Brazilian State and currently materializes in proposals such as that of Future-se, which is nothing more than a new attempt to commercialize higher education.