Educational policy and discursive strategies on nationalism in national development plans (1970-1985)

Abstract

The purpose of this text is to establish relations on the discursive strategies of educational documents, based on the national plans for the development of the Military Regime. To this end, we must consider the specificities and characteristics of the national context in which educational reforms were carried
out. It was a capitalist society, inserted peripherally in the world market. We point out that both the economic model and the conjuncture imposed by the national security dictatorship had an influence on the direction and form of educational policy since 1964 and, consequently, on the educational reforms for higher education. This process was influenced by organized social groups and various other segments of society that polarized the attentions of educational planners and scholars. Despite the tensions, there was a relative consensus among the different social agents, a discursive strategy based on nationalism and the modernization of Brazil that would sometimes cross educational and development projects.