Conglomerate of Private Hegemony Apparatus Lemann and partners in the "public selection" of people for the educational management of the State of Paraná

Abstract

The subsumption of education to the capitalist project is understood through the analysis of the actions of hegemony of the Conglomerate of Private Hegemony Apparatus Lemann and partners in public management. Thus, three experiences from the State of Paraná, Brazil, are highlighted in this research in the period 2016 to 2019, called "public selection" for the commissioned positions of Secretary of Education, of the Municipality of Londrina, of Regional Secretary of Education of the Development Consortium and Innovation from Northern Paraná (CODINORP) and heads for the 32 Regional Education Nucleus of the Secretariat of State for Education and Sport (SEED). All of them were conducted by the Lemann Conglomerate and partner institutions under business management bases, based on individual merit, in the political exemption of the choice, in the overvaluation of the experiential technical accumulation, with a view to the generalization of a certain business type of quality and public education. The analysis exposes the forms of direct intervention of the Private Devices of the Lemann Business Hegemony in public management through an influence plot constituted by the mixed parliamentary front of education, by the State's administrative devices, by companies and, finally, by the process of selective expansion of the State with purposes to ensure expansion of business opportunities.