Atando nós que constroem redes... : a expansão da rede Pitágoras no contexto da transnacionalização da educação

Abstract

This research is inserted in the Nucleus of Public Politics and Management of education, in the context of the globalization/transnationalization, the ressignification of the State and the unfoldings of the international politics on the national politics of the Brazilian education, bringing to surface the implications of the referring reorganization of the State to the categories of the globalization/transnationalization, educational management, and quality of the education. The objective is to understand, by means of analysis of Pitágoras Group expansion in Brazil and the exterior, the context of the economic and politician-cultural globalization, and neoliberal conceptions on the education as right not more social, but as almost-market, with prominence for the trends of the happened transnationalization of the international organisms education, with special attention to the changes in the State administration, on the educational management, of the technologies and the third sector; Metodologicaly this study is inside of the qualitative boarding, characterizing itself as a bibliographical documentary research and, with analytical-critical character, of descriptive nature, where was made the localization, the survey and the sources identification . Ownering all of the documents, we did an exploratory reading of the selected material and consequent contextual, thematical and interpretative analysis of the elements, by the content analysis means. Our first pretension was to understand how the transnationalization/globalization phenomenon has been boarded and argued in the Brazilian and international scientific community, to identify and to argue criticaly how the expansion of the offer of the private schools and the condicionality in front of the recommendations of the international organisms has been configured, by means of reports, leading, documents, and the direct relation of the educational politics with the transnational movement, through the official and not official documents, as laws, resolutions and leading pointed for the MEC/National Advice of Education - CNE relative to the question. We also went through an ample research about the embracing of our study object and area of performance in the exterior and Brazilian territory, and we made the confrontation and analysis of all the dates found in all research development. As result, we verify that, Pitágoras Group synthesized all this education tendency directed toward to the commercialization, a time that its actions had spread, mainly since 90 s in practically every fields on the educational area, by means of the partnerships with the State, with foreign institutions, international organisms, with national companies and the municipal public sector through its Foundation, for the sale of products and educational inseams, for the opening of schools in other countries. That way, for the mere qualification of the teach-learning processes, the Pitágoras Net express the relation between the global one and the location, to represent the new national and international tendencies of the educational management, ideal to substitute, or at least to collaborate significantly, with the model of State that, of supplier, start to be gerenciator of social politics - emphasizing the educational politics. The Pitágoras Net constitutes, in this direction, the new paradigm of educational politics that associates the partnership or the collaborative strategy between State, Market and Community.