EDUCATIONAL PLATFORMS OF THE STATE GOVERNMENT OF PARANÁ

Abstract

The platformization of basic education, as part of a strategic plan to align education with the interests of capital, is the initial premise of this study. The research examined, within the broader process of the subordination of education to capital, the bourgeois influence in what is referred to as the process of the corporatization of public education, aimed at expanding mercantile interests in the field of education to extract greater profit. The topic was investigated through the research project entitled “Education policies and the forms of corporatization of public school education,” within the Research Group on Education, Expanded State, and Hegemonies (GPEH) at the State University of Londrina (UEL). In this context, this article aims to present partial results of the study, which identified and analyzed corporate activity, through Private Entrepreneurial Apparatuses of Hegemony (PEAH), in the use of educational platforms for basic education in the public school system of Paraná, Brazil, from 2019 to 2025. The research is grounded in historical-dialectical materialism, chosen to provide theoretical and methodological substance to the qualitative research of a documentary-bibliographic nature, developed from classical Marxist and Gramscian references and their interpreters. It was concluded that technologies (connectivity, platforms, and apps) are being used as products and services to expand capital’s interests through educational counter-reforms. This process has directly impacted teaching and school management practices, causing a loss of autonomy, increased coercion over teaching work, and the transformation of education into a commodity.