Press media and education: political networks and the new philanthropy in action

Abstract

This text is part of a doctoral research that aimed to investigate the convergences, tensions and challenges of educational training and career policies for teachers. The research highlighted the international context through the analysis of documents by the World Bank, in order to understand how these policies have impacted the Brazilian context through the print media, taking Revista Nova Escola and Gestão Escolar as a surface of analysis. Based on the methodological theoretical framework of the Cycle of Policies and on a search on institutional sites a network of political influence consisting of Brazilian entrepreneurs was mapped. This network proposes, prescribes and induces paths for education by means of magazines. Overall, the ideas disclosed by these pedagogical magazines are aligned with the scope of the private logic for solutions in public education, in order to increase that same private logic and to transform public education into an educational market.