Ultra-Neoliberalism and Higher Education: A Critical (but Hopeful) View from Brazil

In this essay, I analyze the educational crisis of global cognitive capitalism, focusing on the responsibility of the University as a social institution concerned with democratic education, critical awareness, and eco-social sensibility. With this aim, first I discuss the context of ultra-neoliberal...

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Published in:Encounters in Theory and History of Education = Encuentros en teoría e historía de la educación = Rencontres en théorie et histoire de l'éducation 2021, Vol.22, p.41-72
Main Author: Almeida-Filho, Naomar
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Capitalism
Citizenship
Colleges & universities
Epistemology
Essays
Higher education
Modern society
Neoliberalism
Power
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Summary:In this essay, I analyze the educational crisis of global cognitive capitalism, focusing on the responsibility of the University as a social institution concerned with democratic education, critical awareness, and eco-social sensibility. With this aim, first I discuss the context of ultra-neoliberalism and its discontents regarding economic, social, political, epistemological, and scientific macrotrends. Secondly, I introduce the case of Brazilian education and its dialectics of reproducing cycles of transgenerational power relations. Third, I propose a political agenda for education as a fundamental human right, analyzing higher education as a condition of concerned, responsible planetary citizenship. Fourth, I elaborate a conceptual agenda for the University based on epistemologies of the Global South to help overcoming authoritarian, destructive threats of ultra-neoliberalism in contemporary societies.
ISSN:1494-4936
2560-8371
1925-8992
DOI:10.24908/encounters.v22i0.14813