ACCOUNTABILITY, FLEXIBILIZAÇÃO E QUALIDADE TOTAL:

Abstract

The text analyzes the influence of the concepts of accountability, flexibility and total quality on Brazilian educational policies and, mainly, on the National Common Curricular Base (BNCC) and the reform of Secondary Education. It is a bibliographical and documentary, qualitative research, whose theoretical-conceptual perspective is Historical-dialectical Materialism. A contextualization is carried out on the rise of neoliberal policies, New Public Management and managerialism and their consequences on educational policies, highlighting the large-scale evaluation policies issued since 1990. The presence of business sectors in the construction and implementation of the BNCC and the reform of Secondary Education, returning education to private corporate interests. Therefore, these educational policies express the hegemonic project of the social form of capital which seeks, once again, to adjust education to the interests of the market, under the logic of flexible pedagogy and the accountability of social beings for the results of their historical existence.