Educação para reprodução: uma análise da escola como agente potencializador da desigualdade social no Brasil do Estado Novo (1937-45)

Abstract

This monographic work aims to address the relationship between education and inequality, especially during the Estado Novo, which took place between 1937 and 1945 under the leadership of the former president of the Brazilian Republic, Getúlio Dornelles Vargas. We started from the hypothesis that the Capanema Reform in 1942 contributed to the dual scenario of Brazilian education, which became even more accentuated, as it was divided into propaedeutic and technical education from the Organic Laws of Education with former Minister Gustavo Capanema. In this context, quality education would be destined for milk, capable of preparing them to enter higher education and become the country’s intellectual leaders, while professional education would be reserved for the poor, training them to enter the market of immediate work. Such issues reflect in the question of what subject does Capitalism need to guarantee its maintenance? Since, the Reformation corresponded to a requirement of Capital.