The Lemann Group's leading role in the entrepreneurship of Brazilian education and in the training of its organic intellectuals
Keywords: Entrepreneurship of Education. Lemann Group. Private Apparatus of Hegemony
Given this problem, the assessment proposes to analyze the Lemann Group’s action and its protagonism in Brazilian education entrepreneurship. The methodology employed was guided by historical-dialectical materialism and established education entrepreneurship as its empirical reference. This involved bibliographical research and a documentary analysis from the use of primary and secondary sources, conducted through searches in the country’s main databases of articles, theses and dissertations. The research approach is qualitative, due to the diversity of information gathered. However, this does not preclude content analysis based on quantitative research, which will be useful for analyzing data available on the Lemann Foundation’s website, given the widespread reach of its actions across the national territory. This action enables an effective strategy for the advancement of private hegemonic apparatuses and their organic intellectuals, represented by large private groups and their connections with public agents, providing entrepreneurs direct access to public funds at the expense of crucial assistance for the working class in a context of unemployment, job insecurity, and precarious social life. It is, therefore, assumed that this constitutes a political choice by the Brazilian state, which has adopted PPPs as a legitimation strategy for business intervention in Brazilian educational government actions, with the purpose of acquiring public funds and propagating the mercantile ideology in the management and in the strategic formation of capital’s organic intellectuals.
Keywords: Entrepreneurship of Education. Lemann Group. Private Apparatus of Hegemony