Hegemonia estadunidense sobre o Brasil: os Programas PDPI E ETA (2012-2018)

Abstract

The present Master Thesis entitled US Hegemony over Brazil: PDPI and ETA (2012-2018) which theme was the Bilateral Agreements Brazil/USA in the area of Education, started from the following problem: how the Programs PDPI and ETA, applied to the English Language teaching in the Basic and High Education, resulted from the International Cooperation Agreement signed by Brazil and USA, supports the US hegemony in Brazilian Education? The general purpose was to understand how PDPI and ETA sustain the maintenance of US hegemony in Brazilian Education. The specific purposes were: to discuss how the categories Ideology, Hegemony and Discourse are imbricated in the discussion about the north American supremacy over Brazil; to investigate the historical context of reinforcement of US hegemony over Brazil by means of Education; to analyze in what way the educational US propose to the English language teaching supports the US hegemony, through the perception of teachers and coordinators of PDPI and ETA. The investigation subjects were the scholarship teachers and ETA/UFPA coordinators. The loci were Macapá/Amapá and Belém/Pará, in a temporal cut from 2012 to 2018. The study disclosed that Brazilian educational policies are strongly related to the guidelines of the International Organizations, resounding hegemonic discourses of globalization and American supremacy, as a successful model to be followed in the educational area. The research subjects echo modernization and efficiency discourses that hold the teacher responsible for the quality of education and sustain the hegemony of the United States over Brazil