This text is an effective critical balance of the educational policies and concepts that marks the first decade of 21 century. The analysis focuses on the eight years of the Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva government, based on the premise that it marks juncture is not the chronological time but the events that constitute it. This study try to escape of the antinomic discourse that to deal only the continuity and discontinuity about the 1990 decade. The bases of this text is the analysis of the clashes and options about the society project that marks the decade juncture and how to develop education in this period. Are focused the significant advances in care policies, income distribution, opening of government jobs and the creation of new public universities and Federal Institutes of Technological Education. Is important to realize that the productivist and mercantilist thought were dominant at all the levels of the education system. And, finally, through the analysis, is possible to realize that a npe d - whose the specific works is to find the scientificity of knowledge and, therefore, of historic, social, cultural, etics and politics sense of his production - collapse to productivism.
juncture; society project; education; commodification; productism