The New Pedagogy of Evangelical Hegemony and the Bolsonarista Project of Fascistization: the interface in the policies of militarization of schools and Home Education (2019-2022).
Evangelicals; Bolsonarism; Educational Policies; Evangelical Parliamentary Front; Homeschooling.
The thesis is the result of a research on the role of churches and private apparatuses of evangelical hegemony, as well as the work of their organic intellectuals, in the context of the process that we characterize as the growth of fascism in Brazil. This process derives from the bolsonarist project of fascistization, considering its historical determinations, which are inseparable from the deepening of the organic crisis of capital and the strengthening and rise of a liberal-ultraconservative front acting ideologically in the country. Based on Antonio Gramsci's Marxist theoretical framework, anchored in the concept of the expanded (integral) state as a theoretical-methodological tool, the research sought to identify and analyze the strategies of educating for consensus through the characterization of the new pedagogy of evangelical hegemony, as well as its relationship with Bolsonarism and the disputes surrounding the educational policies circumscribed by the Nonpartisan School ideology, which is tied to the renewed coercive strategies intrinsic to bourgeois autocracy in dependent and peripheral capitalism. The specific time frame established was the period of President Jair Bolsonaro's administration (2019-2022), and we focused on analyzing the actions of the evangelical segment through the Ministry of Education (MEC) and the Evangelical Parliamentary Front (FPE). The study identified two predominant aspects of this segment's work in relation to educational policies: a) the dispute over shaping the behaviour of students, teachers and legal guardians, through the policy of militarizing schools, linked at the same time to the socio-emotional competencies established by multilateral entities of big capital and to the fascist elements of the bolsonarist prescription; and b) the dispute over the meaning and function of the family as a social institution, through Homeschooling advocacy, linked to other strategies of a Christian fundamentalist, ultraconservative and reactionary nature, aimed at the “restoration of meaning” and the “refunctionalization of the family”. We conclude that the political arrangements directed at these policies, which included the intensification and mobilization of private apparatuses of evangelical hegemony, in the set of activities of the liberal-ultraconservative front, characterized the interface of the new pedagogy of evangelical hegemony with the bolsonarist project of fascistization, thus representing the alignment of the leading intellectuals and hegemonic apparatuses of the evangelical segment with Bolsonarism, which were constituted of and at the same time constituted, in the period analyzed, the process of fascistization in Brazil.