Concepção de educação de think tanks liberais no Brasil e governamentabilidade neoliberal

Abstract

This article aims to identify the activities of the von Mises Brasil Institute and the Rothbard Institute in the conformation of neoliberal rationality in Brazilian education, contributing to the internalization, in institutions and subjectivities, of a concept of ultraliberal education. It is a bibliographic and documentary study that inserts these think tanks in a historical processes and also is based on the concept of neoliberal governmentality by Brown (2019) and Dardot and Laval (2016), complemented with the critical use of Mises, Hayek and Rothbard, are the filters used. Its main conclusions indicate that the activities of these organizations and their conception of education are part of a more global movement of ideological reaction to the financial crisis of 2008 as well as an unfolding of the actions of the new right in Brazil. In education, it concludes that such rationality involves the centrality of families in decisions about education, with legitimization of extreme privatization strategies, disqualification of public and compulsory education proposing an education centered on extreme privatization strategies.