60 ANOS DO GOLPE MILITAR

a educação brasileira entre mudanças e permanências

Abstract

In March 2024, Brazil celebrated the 60th anniversary of the coup d'état that instituted the military dictatorship (1964-1985). His policy on education was contradictory: on the one hand, he controlled the school apparatus at all levels; on the other, it expanded the system. Today, we are living in the future of the 60th anniversary of the military coup and the almost 40th anniversary of the conquest of democracy (1985) and we can better understand them as the events that provoked the dictatorship bear fruit. That's because, as long as the present unfolds, there is no certainty about which of its probabilities will become future. History is a set of possibilities and not a prior certainty. With this theoretical perspective, this study is based on primary and secondary sources, documents and music of the time, as well as on the authors' experience against the military dictatorship. It presents the reasons for the 1964 coup d'état; The educational policy of the military dictatorship and its developments in the almost four decades following). It shows that the country has advanced in the expansion of higher education and in the strengthening of research in contrast to the serious and persistent problems in the public basic school system. The conclusions about these 60 years are inspired by Fernand Braudel's theory of changes and continuities that characterize the entire historical process of humanity.