Mercantilização da educação, escola pública e trabalho educativo

This text is founded on historical materialism and historical-critical pedagogy to analyze the meaning of the mercantilization of education and to understand its repercussions in the public schools of contemporary Brazil. What does mercantilization of education mean? What political and economic processes condition the mercantilization of education? What are the impacts of this project on educational work? Trying to answer these questions, the text proves that the mercantilization of education must be understood as a political-ideological project of the business people that aims to reduce the social right to education to mere commercial service integrated with the dynamics of the "business world", involving the production of sociability and the up-tick of the capital reproduction cycle. However, this project redefines the educational work of intentional action aimed at the formation of humanity through the transmission of the most developed ways of scientific, philosophical and artistic knowledge to the activity aimed at the training of skills considered useful to students daily lives.