THE EFFECTS OF IMPERIALISM ON HIGHER EDUCATION IN THE CAPITALIST PERIPHERY AND THE BRAZILIAN CASE: From the 1968 Reform to Kroton as the World's Largest Private Group in 2016
This work aims to investigate the relations between imperialism and the consolidation of the structure of higher education in Brazil, considering the prevalence of for-profit institutions and the consequent formation of oligopoly. The evolution of this configuration is based on a scenario composed by the interaction between the World Bank, represented as an imperialist mechanism, and the policies developed for the sector in the period. The main objective is to verify how the consolidation of this configuration reflects an imperialist perspective for the periphery, with a system based on the private network and with limited possibilities for autonomous development, whether epistemic or technological. Consequently, this configuration is notable for 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 maintaining the center-periphery contradiction. As a complement to this theory, there is the empirical analysis of data on higher education, reports from the World Bank and from Kroton, the most relevant private group in the Brazilian educational sector.