A AMPLIAÇÃO SOCIOMETABÓLICA DO CAPITAL NA/POR MEIO DA EDUCAÇÃO PÚBLICA: A INICIATIVA DA FUNDAÇÃO LEMANN (2002-2021)

• Ano de defesa: 2024
• Autor(a) principal: Guilherme Afonso Monteiro de Barros Marins
• Orientador(a): Silvia Helena Andrade de Brito
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Fundação Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul
• País: Brasil
• Palavras-chave em Português: Fundação Lemann. Público/privado na educação. Empresariado. Fundos Públicos.
• Link de acesso: https://repositorio.ufms.br/handle/123456789/9476

The Lemann Foundation (FL) and its role in the production/reproduction of the 3G-Lemann conglomerate, through its actions in the field of education during the period from 2022 to 2021, is the object of investigation in this thesis, institutionally related to the Graduate Program in Education/Faculty of Education/UFMS-Campo Grande, Research Line "History, Policies, Education." To demonstrate how these elements — FL and the society of Capital — are related, we need to understand the modern State — a fundamental part of the sociometabolic system of capital — to uncover how, through public finances, the private sector gains momentum to perpetuate its interests, thereby maintaining bourgeois sociability: this is our general objective in this work. For this purpose, we employ historical-dialectical materialism as a theoretical framework and various documentary sources, both bibliographic and those produced by FL itself and its partners, to reconstruct its role in education in Brazil. We conduct this reconstruction by problematizing themes such as New Public Management; the public-private relationship; FL's international and national partnerships; and the goods produced by FL in the educational field, aimed at both public and private schools, such as educational technologies, among others. In conclusion, we can say that the very complexity and scope of FL's activities directed at public education in Brazil, with the modern State being one of its main financiers, already reveals one of the important mechanisms for the maintenance of the contemporary capitalist sociometabolism. Thus, the constructed results indicate that the Lemann Foundation can only be analyzed, as a research object, if we understand the determinations that compose it, relating FL to the business conglomerate to which it belongs, on one hand. On the other hand, we also cannot disregard the structural crisis of Capital and its implications for capitalist production/reproduction, which will constitute a determining element for the present/future of FL itself and what it represents. Keywords: Lemann Foundation, public-private in education, entrepreneurship, public funds.