IDEOLOGY AND THE POWER OF THE STATE IN THE EDUCATIONAL SPHERE

Abstract

This article is based on a bibliographic research and aims to discuss the role of ideology and the power of the state in the field of educational policies. Our considerations are based on the discussion that points to the state as a regulator and defender of bourgeois assumptions, as well as a mediator of the productive process. Thus, their policies are permeated by ideologies, which constitute representations of a given reality in a historical period of human development. Since educational policies are part of social policies, their specificities are also anchored in the possibilities of sustaining the neoliberal process, reproducing the prevailing social contradictions. Education as an Ideological State Apparatus (ISA) is constantly thought and articulated based on practices of ideological compositions, capable of creating subjectivities and social relations, enabling the legitimacy of political and economic connections. In the course of this article, we seek to point out the Common National Curriculum Base (BNCC) as an expression of an educational policy articulated with the market assumptions of the system, which presents its own dynamism according to the interests in dispute, and fosters, through the letter of the law, the assumptions of perpetuation of capitalist ideals.