Prolegómenos sobre o processo de transformação capitalista da actividade educativa nos níveis básico e secundário de escolaridade

Leopoldo Mesquita

doi:10.21814/rpe.3027

PROLEGOMENA ON THE PROCESS OF CAPITALIST TRANSFORMATION OF EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITY AT THE ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLING

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Leopoldo Mesquita Universidade do Porto, Portugal

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https://doi.org/10.21814/rpe.3027

Abstract

This paper aims to expose the foundations of a suggested new field on educational research, whose object is the capitalist transformation (or capitalization) of the educational activity in the elementary and secondary levels, which is considered as the present dominant trend in educational policies all over the world. It is argued that such an educational change configures a classic process of capitalist transition whose nodal point is the
transformation of school work. Under the slogan of "continuous improvement" of school results, it is intended to constitute the productivity of students work as the measure of the productivity of the teacher's work. In this context, a detailed study of the forms of capital valorization in the education industry is required. Occurring mainly within the public education systems, the current
educational transformation involves deep changes both in state structures and in the relationships of educational production. The concepts of capitalizer state and for-capitalist forms of market are used to analyze these changes.

Keywords
Capitalization of education systems; School work; Capitalizer state

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Mesquita, L. (2011). PROLEGOMENA ON THE PROCESS OF CAPITALIST TRANSFORMATION OF EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITY AT THE ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY SCHOOLING. Portuguese Journal of Education, 24(2), 07–31. https://doi.org/10.21814/rpe.3027

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Vol. 24 No. 2 (2011)

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