Produção do conhecimento sobre a financeirização da educação superior brasileira

Abstract

The dissertation has as its object of study the production of knowledge already accumulated on the financialization of Brazilian higher education. The objective of this research is to recognize what is already known about the multiple determinations that constitute the financialization of Brazilian higher education. For this purpose, a bibliographic research was carried out in the Brazilian Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (BDTD) of the Brazilian Institute of Information in Science and Technology (IBICT); on the Google Scholar platform; in the Proceedings of the National Association of Graduate Studies in Education (ANPED) and in the Scientific Electronics Library platform (SciELO Brasil). We located and analyzed fifty productions among theses, dissertations and scientific articles, which allowed us to recognize the financialization of Brazilian higher education as a historically determined phenomenon, which establishes an evident nexus with educational commodification, which, since at least 1960, has intensified and transformed, consolidating the necessary conditions for the development of the phenomenon in question. This financial movement in education in Brazil is expressed explicitly from the 2000s, especially in 2007, when the first Brazilian educational companies go public, starting to trade their shares on the São Paulo Stock Exchange – BOVESPA, presenting as main characteristics the presence of large private equity funds (private equity funds) in the control of educational companies, the trend of oligopolization of the sector and the need for state support for its development.