The urgent need to re-educate or fight the far right: God, country, family, market, neoconservatism, inequality, and perversity

Authors

  • Franklin Kaic Dutra-Pereira Universidade Federal da Paraíba (UFPB), Centro de Ciências Exatas e da Natureza, Departamento de Química, João Pessoa, PB, Brasil. franklin.kaic@academico.ufpb.br https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4486-6124

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21573/vol41n12025.141105

Keywords:

Far-right, BNCC, Educating the Right, Michael Apple, High School Reform

Abstract

“Educating the Right: Markets, Standards, God, and Inequality” was written by Michael Apple, a North American researcher. This book was published in São Paulo by Editora Cortez in 2003, with 328 pages and ISBN registration 978-8524909030. Revisiting it twenty years after its publication, I engaged in a close and provocative reading, which produced different effects and sensations during an undergraduate course where we discussed the rise of neoliberal policies and the far-right in power, and their impact on teacher education programs. This experience prompted and compelled me to express, through writing, the many sensations stirred during this reading, which are reflected in this review. I explored the key points highlighted by Apple in depth, first due to the difficulty in finding such a necessary book in the current context, and second because I presented examples from the Brazilian reality following the 2016 coup and the rise of the far-right to power with Bolsonaro, especially in relation to the Base Nacional Comum Curricular (BNCC) and the reform of the Novo Ensino Médio (New High School).

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Author Biography

Franklin Kaic Dutra-Pereira, Universidade Federal da Paraíba (UFPB), Centro de Ciências Exatas e da Natureza, Departamento de Química, João Pessoa, PB, Brasil. franklin.kaic@academico.ufpb.br

Sou o “fracasso de tudo que queriam que eu fosse” (Linnda Quebrada). Doutor em ensino de ciências e matemática (PPGECM/UFRN), Licenciado em Química (CES/UFCG) e Pedagogia (UNICSul). Professor da Universidade Federal da Paraíba, onde ensino e (des)ensino no departamento de química – entre frestas, fabulações e incômodos à norma, ao patriarcado e ao colonialismo. Atuo nos programas de Pós-Graduação em Educação da UFPB, no PROFQUI e no PPGECID/UFRB, orientando com o corpo, com o desejo e com a política. Lidero o COM-FABULAÇÕES: ateliê de pesquisas inventivas em educação, e integro o GEPPC/UFPB, além de ser membro da SBEnQ, ANPEd, ABRAPEC e RELAPEQ. Pesquiso nas margens e nos desvios: cartografias, estudos culturais da educação, escritas auto.bio.gráficas, políticas do currículo com as diferenças, cotidianos indisciplináveis, teorias queer, dissidências de corpos, gêneros e sexualidades no ensino de ciências e na educação química. Milito com as cores todas da sigla LGBTTQIAPNb+ e contra tudo que sufoca a vida: fascismos, racismos, moralismos, apagamentos. Acredito em ciências que tocam e cuidam, escolas que inventam mundos, universidades que não se rendem. Respiro um pouco de possível para não sufocar (deleuze) e escrevo para adiar o fim – com-fabulando futuros com quem se atreve a existir.

References

APPLE, Michael. Educando à direita: mercados, padrões, Deus e desigualdade. São Paulo: Cortez/Instituto Paulo Freire, 2003.

OLIVEIRA, Inês Barbosa de; SÜSSEKIND, Maria Luiza. Tsunami Conservador e Resistência: a CONAPE em defesa da educação pública. Educação & Realidade, v. 44, n. 3, p. e84868, 2019. Disponível em: < https://www.scielo.br/j/edreal/a/w4Pq6Yrn3c8RXXQWBvvXXTk/>. Acesso em: 12 maio e 2025.

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Published

2025-09-19

How to Cite

Dutra-Pereira, F. K. (2025). The urgent need to re-educate or fight the far right: God, country, family, market, neoconservatism, inequality, and perversity. REVISTA BRASILEIRA DE POLÍTICA E ADMINISTRAÇÃO DA EDUCAÇÃO, 41(1). https://doi.org/10.21573/vol41n12025.141105

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Vol. 41 (2025): RBPAE - Revista Brasileira de Política e Administração da Educação

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