NEOLIBERALISM IN EDUCATION: FROM INTELLECTUAL AUTONOMY TO TECHNICAL EXECUTION – THE EMERGENCE OF A "NEW TEACHER"
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Educational Neoliberalism, Teacher Identity, New Public Management, Intellectual Proletarianization, BNC-FormaçãoAbstract
This article investigates the metamorphosis of teacher identity under the aegis of neoliberalism and New Public Management (NPM) in Brazil. Through a critical and documentary analysis centered on regulatory frameworks such as BNC-Formação and High School reforms between 2017 and 2024, the investigation reveals the genesis of a "new teacher": a de-intellectualized professional whose pedagogical autonomy is replaced by the technical execution of standardized protocols. The results demonstrate that the "dictatorship of metrics" and the culture of performativity operate an intellectual proletarianization of the teaching profession, exiling teachers from their role as architects of knowledge to convert them into managers of statistical indicators. The study concludes that the precariousness of the career and the systemic illness of the category are by-products of a deliberate project to submit education to market logic. It is urgent to reclaim teacher training as a State policy and intangible heritage, ensuring the rehabilitation of the teacher's intellectual sovereignty against privatist and managerialist onslaughts.
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