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The Commodification of Education in Brazil

Opposition and Alternatives

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The aim of the bourgeois school is to disseminate a certain form of socialization that agrees with the current pattern of capital accumulation in a particular historical context, a phenomenon examined by Gramsci in his notes on Americanism (Gramsci, 1977: Quaderno IV, pp. 489–493).

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Leher, R., Vittoria, P. (2016). The Commodification of Education in Brazil. In: Leher, R., Accioly, I. (eds) Commodifying Education. Comparative and International Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-582-1_6

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