Abstract
This study presents an analysis of Brazilian public education, considering the history of disputes among different projects for the area and the consequences for the country over time. The research focuses on higher education and aims to express the perspective of actors committed to the struggle for a transformative and emancipatory alternative to education, challenging the neoliberal offensive, and loss of rights. Using the categories and conceptions of Gramscian, the article points out instruments that potentially transform and strengthen the strategies to resist to the bourgeois and neoliberal hegemony. This set of instruments may represent a field of intervention for professors, researchers, and students committed to protecting and strengthening the public university.
Keywords:
Public education; Social rights; Emancipation; Neoliberalism; Class struggle