Abstract

SOUZA, Maria Antonia de. Social Movements and Education in Brazil: The Conjuncture from 2013 to 2018. Rev. colomb. educ. [online]. 2021, n.81, pp.289-309.  Epub Apr 03, 2022. ISSN 0120-3916.  https://doi.org/10.17227/rce.num81-10598.

This article characterizes movements and social manifestations linked to education in Brazil from 2013 to 2018. During this period the National Plan of Education was issued, and teachers and students organized different manifestations. The paper is the result of a documentary research, with a corpus consisting of civil society documents, such as letters and manifests from the Forum in Defense of the Public School, National Union of Teachers of Higher Education Institutions, Nationa Association of Postgraduate and Research in Education and National Meeting of Education of 2016, along with laws, decrees and provisional measures. It is based on Gohn (1997), for whom social movements are sociopolitical actions built by col-ective social actors belonging to different classes and social strata. The actions are articulated in certain sceneries of the political conjuncture of the country. According to this perspective,there is a predominance of collective actions that struggle for the strengthening of democratic practices and public education in the analyzed period in Brazil. It might be concluded that, in the country, with the manifestations of 2013, the repoliticization of social movements becomes evident, marked by collective actions inspired by old utopias and other ones based on the conservative ideology.

Keywords : education; public education; participation; social organizations; democracy.

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