Todos pela Educação? O papel do Instituto Ayrton Senna

Abstract

This research analyzes the historical determinations of the emergence and diffusion of business organizations in civil society with great influence on educational policies in the last three decades. The general objective will be to analyze the role of the Ayrton Senna Institute (IAS) in the reform of Basic Education within the Expanded State in Brazil, both in its role in Civil Society, through articulation with other agents, including the All for the Movement Education, as in its penetration in the Political Society, through the insertion of its interests within strict state agencies, as municipal secretaries and the National Education Council. This is a basic research, of qualitative analysis, of an explanatory character, which falls into the category of research of documentary type. The research intends to use the concept Amplified State as a theoretical-methodological tool. In this sense, civil society, a superstructural sphere through which social classes organize to compete for hegemony, was the background to understand the performance of the IAS and its relations with its partners. Meanwhile, the political society and, consequently, the policies that emerge from the state agencies were understood as the expression of the correlation of forces between the social classes and their organizations. Since its founding, the IAS has brought together a large group of associates who have, from this organization, an important private hegemony. In its twenty-three years of existence, IAS has become responsible for disseminating in Basic Education new pedagogical models with the objective of adapting training for simple work to the new demands arising from the bourgeois recomposition. In this movement, two organic intellectuals linked to the IAS have been produced. Throughout the years, the organization has been deeply involved in the organization: Viviane Senna, founder and president of IAS, and Mozart Neves, advisor to the National Education Council.