A REDUCA como semeadora de consensos na América Latina: avaliação, padronização e subordinação

Abstract

ABSTRACT Latin America has a history marked by brutal processes of expropriation by European powers since the 16th century. Wars, reforms, struggles for independence, and revolutions coexist with the harassment by imperialist countries, in collusion with different bourgeois factions in the region, to maintain a condition of subordination. Based on this, the present article aims to reflect on the consensuses that business sectors, articulated around Rede Latino-Americana de Organizações da Sociedade Civil pela Educação (REDUCA), have formulated for education in Latin America in recent decades. REDUCA was officially launched in Brasília in 2011, sponsored by the IDB, big companies, and corporate foundations. The primary documents analyzed argue that Latin American economies suffer from low productivity, supporting the claim that increased schooling directly enhances productivity, presupposing a linear relationship between education and business competitiveness. In this context, the IDB and other supranational organizations promote the formation of social networks, such as REDUCA, which consists of various ‘private apparatuses of hegemony,’ in Gramscian terms, to act on the implementation of educational reforms, introducing large-scale evaluations, curriculum standardizations, and control of teaching work.