Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Roberto Leher and Inny Accioly -- Education and Financial Capital / Vânia Motta , Simone Silva , Daniele Pinheiro and Pedro Tavares -- Commodifying Education in a Dependent Capitalist Country / Inny Accioly , Bruno Gawryszewski and Luciane Nascimento -- Educating for Dependence / Juliana Argollo , Larissa Dahmer Pereira , Marco Lamarão and Vânia Motta -- Capital Control Over Basic Education / Jussara Marques de Macedo and Carolina Cristina Cardoso Teixeira -- Capital Control Over Higher Education / Simone Silva and Pedro Tavares -- The Commodification of Education in Brazil / Roberto Leher and Paolo Vittoria -- About the Authors / Roberto Leher and Inny Accioly.

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The texts in this book do not compose a mere selection: the questions that guide the chapters form a cohesively and coherently structured totality which expresses the movement of construction of what the authors understand to be a new problematic in the education field in Brazil and in the world. The book addresses basic, professional and undergraduate education from perspectives that highlight different aspects of privatization, commercialization and commodification, as well as the presence of the business community in the definition of educational policies. These levels and modalities of teaching are analysed in articulation both with science, technology and so-called technological innovation policies and with the modus operandi of the state.