The education and rise of the new (or extreme?) right in Brazil: interview with Gaudêncio Frigotto

Abstract

The present interview with Professor Gaudêncio Frigotto has as its central theme the most relevant social, political and educational events of recent times: the collapse of liberal democracy, the Legal-Media-parliamentary coup, the rise of the extreme right and the process of deconstruction of historical, social and political achievements - focusing, in particular, on educational policies. Gaudêncio Frigotto is a professor in Political Economy and Education at Universidade Federal Fluminense (retired). He is currently a professor at the Postgraduate Program in Public Policies and Human Development at the University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ). Professor Frigotto has always managed to combine academic life and social engagement, becoming, over time, one of the most representative names in defense of public and free of charge education, with good quality and socially recognized. In 2015, he was awarded with the prize Luta pela Terra - 30 anos do MST (Fight for the Land – 30 years of the MST) by the Brazilian Landless Workers Movement.