Abstract
This article analyzes the document Pátria Educadora: A qualificação do Ensino Básico como obra de construção nacional, in circulation since April, 2015 in its draft. The focus of this paper’s examination were the actions proposed by the document for the Brazilian public education. Concepts of Michel Foucault, such as discourse and governmentality, inform this discussion. From this perspective, the proposed actions are observed to be related to the characteristics of neoliberalism that regulate many areas, among them the educational field. Signs of this relation can be found in the presence of the Theory of Human Capital and the market logic operating over students, teachers and institutions putting everyone in permanent competition. In addition, the document presents a discourse that disqualifies teachers and institutions and promotes this document’s project as able to save Brazilian education.
Keywords
educational policies; public education; neoliberalism; Michel Foucault