Democratização e Relações entre Público e Privado em Educação: provisão, sentido e conteúdo, no Brasil e Portugal (2015-2022)

The relationships between public and private are discussed as processes carried out by individual and collective subjects in relation that dispute the provision, direction, meaning, content and the policy of knowledge for education. In Brazil, stand out the involvement of the State and the strength of private collective subjects and social movements, committed to restoring traditional values, remaking education as a commodity and dismantling collective responsibility for the common good, diversity and social justice. In Portugal it is noticed, both the affirmation of public responsibility for compulsory education (with reinforcement of private intervention) and the lack of distinction between actors and(in) certain areas of public and private intervention and the mobilization of individual and private collective actors for the dispute of meaning and hegemony in education. On both sides of the Atlantic, the centrality of public education in democracies is reinforced, and undermined by the activism of ideological combinations that support both the neoliberal social agenda and the neoconservative restoration. In Brazil, the breadth of consequences of de-democratization processes in the field of education became more pronounced, in face of the ambivalence and duplicity of Portuguese public policies, boosted by the capillarity between actors, interests and public and private resources in education governance networks.