INTERNATIONALIZATION OF BRAZILIAN EDUCATIONAL POLICIES AND THE RECONFIGURATION OF THE MISSION OF SCHOOL COOPERATIVES IN PUBLIC EDUCATION
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https://doi.org/10.48075/ri.v28i1.36804Keywords:
educational policies; internationalization of education; school cooperatives; public schooling; neoliberalismAbstract
This article critically examines the internationalization of Brazilian educational policies and its implications for the mission of school cooperatives within public education. Since the 1990s, educational policymaking in Brazil has increasingly incorporated guidelines promoted by international organizations and global education forums, grounded in neoliberal, managerial, and results-oriented rationalities. Drawing on Bakhtinian language theory, educational policies are analyzed as ideologically situated discourses shaped by power relations and competing social projects. Methodologically, the study adopts an exploratory and analytical bibliographic approach, based on academic literature published from 2018 onward. The findings suggest that the internationalization of educational policies has contributed to a redefinition of the school’s mission, prioritizing functional adaptation to labor market demands over comprehensive human development. In this context, school cooperatives—despite their emancipatory potential rooted in cooperation, self-management, and solidarity-based economics—are increasingly subjected to instrumentalization through discourses of entrepreneurship and performance. The article concludes that reaffirming the pedagogical, democratic, and critical role of school cooperatives is essential to resisting the commodification of education and strengthening public schools as spaces for citizenship formation.
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