Education in Brazil between 1930 and 1985: prioritizing quantity over quality in educational expansion

In the history of research on Brazilian education, several studies address the expansion of elementary education over the years in the country, in addition to the historical pedagogical context that permeated this process of expansion in the period between 1930 and 1985. The main objective of this...

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Main Author: Gustavo Cunha de Araujo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina 2021-02-01
Series:Perspectiva
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Online Access:https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/perspectiva/article/view/70567
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spelling doaj-7678394b37194adcb659e57a649c87f02021-02-23T18:44:15ZengUniversidade Federal de Santa CatarinaPerspectiva0102-54732175-795X2021-02-0139310.5007/2175-795X.2021.e70567Education in Brazil between 1930 and 1985: prioritizing quantity over quality in educational expansionGustavo Cunha de Araujo0Universidade Federal do Tocantins In the history of research on Brazilian education, several studies address the expansion of elementary education over the years in the country, in addition to the historical pedagogical context that permeated this process of expansion in the period between 1930 and 1985. The main objective of this article is to analyze the process of expansion of Brazilian Elementary Education, based on the Laws of Guidelines and Bases of National Education (GBNE) no. 4.024/61 and no. 5.692/71. The article concludes that the educational policy of the military dictatorship in Brazil after the 1960s was supported by these two laws, and that their main objective was to ensure the expansion of vacancies in elementary education, aiming at the minimum qualification for entry into the labour market, prioritising the quantity and not the quality of education. Public education materialized in the formation of human resources is considered a way to guarantee productivity; attending, on the one hand, to the demands of qualified labor for the capitalist market, and on the other hand, to the improvement of wages and the distribution of income to the elites. https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/perspectiva/article/view/70567elementary schoolBrazilian educationeducational legislationeducational expansionprimary education
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Education in Brazil between 1930 and 1985: prioritizing quantity over quality in educational expansion
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elementary school
Brazilian education
educational legislation
educational expansion
primary education
author_facet Gustavo Cunha de Araujo
author_sort Gustavo Cunha de Araujo
title Education in Brazil between 1930 and 1985: prioritizing quantity over quality in educational expansion
title_short Education in Brazil between 1930 and 1985: prioritizing quantity over quality in educational expansion
title_full Education in Brazil between 1930 and 1985: prioritizing quantity over quality in educational expansion
title_fullStr Education in Brazil between 1930 and 1985: prioritizing quantity over quality in educational expansion
title_full_unstemmed Education in Brazil between 1930 and 1985: prioritizing quantity over quality in educational expansion
title_sort education in brazil between 1930 and 1985: prioritizing quantity over quality in educational expansion
publisher Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
series Perspectiva
issn 0102-5473
2175-795X
publishDate 2021-02-01
description In the history of research on Brazilian education, several studies address the expansion of elementary education over the years in the country, in addition to the historical pedagogical context that permeated this process of expansion in the period between 1930 and 1985. The main objective of this article is to analyze the process of expansion of Brazilian Elementary Education, based on the Laws of Guidelines and Bases of National Education (GBNE) no. 4.024/61 and no. 5.692/71. The article concludes that the educational policy of the military dictatorship in Brazil after the 1960s was supported by these two laws, and that their main objective was to ensure the expansion of vacancies in elementary education, aiming at the minimum qualification for entry into the labour market, prioritising the quantity and not the quality of education. Public education materialized in the formation of human resources is considered a way to guarantee productivity; attending, on the one hand, to the demands of qualified labor for the capitalist market, and on the other hand, to the improvement of wages and the distribution of income to the elites.
topic elementary school
Brazilian education
educational legislation
educational expansion
primary education
url https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/perspectiva/article/view/70567
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