Redes nacionais de influência em políticas educacionais

Abstract

In the context of the Welfare State reform, political pressure groups have been seeking to reorganize administration's logic of public education, by marketizing it and constraining it to meet the demands of the private markets. According to this view, the present research sought to understand the organization, strategies and artifacts used by these political pressure groups to change current educational policies. Also, we identify the political rhetoric mobilized to translate, at the national level, the neoliberalization of education. In this regard, we mapped the national ramifications of Atlas Liberty Network, one of these political pressure groups and searched for connections between institutions and the dynamic of relationships among its members. The results point to the organization methods, the wide network acitivity, and its political permeability among educational policies, with Todos pela Educação and the Movimento pela Base playing a major role. The analysis of network's discourses, mechanisms, artifacts and forms of influence in public policies highlights the proposal to apply a performativity/meritocracy logic and the search for privatization/outsourcing of education through the vouchers system.