Virtual teaching and training: the new strategy of the education project at the service of capital

Abstract

This article develops the hypothesis that there’s an intimate relationship between the interests of capital and education, as a
strategy in the construction of individuals who will compete in a scarce, precarious and unstable labor market. It analyzes documents
from multilateral organizations, their ideological mechanisms and strategies used with the intention of building consensus on the need
for a “new” educational project, in which there is a slow and gradual replacement of classroom teaching, via hybrid systems. The
most concrete, complete and complex change in teaching/education is underway: it’s virtualization or digitalization, which has been
projected since the Bologna reform (1999). We conclude that capital, in it’s search for valorization, found strategies and tactics in the
pandemic for the continuity and intensification of the use of digital technologies in education, transforming it into distance learning
and imposing a new educational project. This project found an unprecedented opportunity and justification: Covid-19.