ABSTRACT:
The present research examines the editorials of the Journal Educação & Sociedade from three thematic approaches, namely: Public policies in education; National Plans of Education and Education and market. These themes were defined by the reading of all 144 editorials, based on the relevance and recurrence of these themes throughout the history of the magazine mainly from the number 58 onward. Selected editorials were, then, re-read and studied in order to detect the pedagogical and political treatment given by the editorial board responsible for their elaboration. The reading of these texts allowed us to recognize the admonitory sense of many analyzes and theses, which have been made and defended in relation to the direction of the country’s educational policy that extends from the second half of the 1970s, when the military dictatorship declined, until the current days, when signs of a new authoritarianism are again perceived. In general terms, the strong impression that remains is that over the last forty years of Brazilian history educational policy has been moved, without any centrality, to the political, economic and ideological interests of the groups that succeeded in power, always at the expense of the humblest layers of the population.
Keywords:
Education and society; Educational politics; Public educational policies; Education and market