Daniel Cara criticizes the appointment of a delegate to Inep: yet another one who is not an educator.
According to Daniel Cara, coordinator of the National Campaign for the Right to Education, the appointment of Federal Police delegate Elmer Coelho Vicenzi to the presidency of INEP (National Institute for Educational Studies and Research) is yet another member of the Ministry of Education's team who is not an educator and is part of a strategy to privatize education.
247 - In an interview with CartaCapital magazine, the coordinator of the National Campaign for the Right to Education, Daniel Cara, states that the appointment of Federal Police delegate Elmer Coelho Vicenzi to the presidency of INEP (National Institute for Educational Studies and Research) is yet another member of the Ministry of Education's team who is not an educator.
According to Cara, the measure taken by economist Abraham Weintraub, the current Minister of Education, is no accident. The arrangement is one of the government's main strategies: "The privatization of education as part of an ultraliberal policy."
In the interview, Cara explains that the tactic used to justify the privatization project is to weaken the state and the provision of public services, then attribute incompetence to the system. "It's a radicalization of the neoliberal project, which already foresees a reduction in the size of the state," the expert asserts.
According to Daniel Cara, the Bolsonaro government lacks a clear concept of education. "Their concept of educational policy is far-right propaganda. When Olavo de Carvalho says that a culture war is necessary, he wants to dominate universities and schools as a space to convince society and recruit new militants for the far-right cause, which is ultra-reactionary. They have no concern for educational policy," he emphasizes.
Check out the interview at capital letter.