Imperialism, Monopoly and Education: monopoly capitalism and higher education in Brazil (1996-2016)
This dissertation aims to investigate the relations between imperialism, monopoly and education, specifically in the higher education sector, between 1996 and 2016. For this purpose, the analysis focuses on three actors representing, respectively, each of these three spheres, World Bank, Grupo Cogna and the Ministry of Education in the federal governments of the period. The main objective is to verify how these relations converged to the formation of the current higher education system, based on the private sector and with limited possibilities for technological development through research and the development of its own epistemic autonomy. Thus, the configuration of the Brazilian higher education system is configured by the country's adoption to a subordinate participation, also in educational aspects, in the world system. The work is based on Samir Amin's concept of imperialism, which highlights the role of multilateral agencies in the maintenance of this system. Complimentary to this theory, is the empirical analysis of data on higher education, on the two federal administrations of the period and on the private group in question, which became the largest in the world.