Neoliberalism and education entrepreneurship

Problematizations from the program The Leader in Me

Abstract

This article presents the scope of an investigation that aimed to analyze how the Program The Leader in Me operates in the school environment and what strategies it develops to conduct the conduct of the teaching subject. To accomplish the same, we analyzed the bibliographic materials for teachers, the website and the facebook page of the program. From the analytical exercise of the research, the regulation of teaching work is discussed, developed in two axes. The first is directed to the exercise of teaching and how the program determines how the teacher should conduct his classes, the proposed activities and his behavior in the classroom, thus evidencing a process of teacher deintellectualization. The second axis refers to the school curriculum, because there is a change in the knowledge that is taught to students, which also includes the habits of the program, producing an alchemy of school subjects. The school thus becomes a machinery of production of capitalistic subjectivity put into operation by neoliberal rationality. However, it can also be a war machine producing resistance for other ways of being a teacher and exercising our intellectuality in the present time.