The ideology of agribusiness in basic education

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https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-795X.2018v36n4p1378

Abstract

Agribusiness has become a reality in the Brazilian countryside since the 1990s. However, its performance is not limited to the production and commercialization of goods at the international level. In this sense, starting from the Marxist concept of ideology as a representation of the social relations of production and component of the class struggle, with material interferences in the reproduction of the relations of production, we analyze agribusiness as the ideological expression of the ruling class. We bring arguments of the agribusiness discourse and its use in the educational program 'Agribusiness in School' developed by the Brazilian Association of Agribusiness in the region of Ribeirão Preto-SP. The results show the importance of education as an ideological tool to internalize in the subjects’ consciousness, since childhood, the social importance of the agribusiness to ensure the reproduction of production relations.

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Victor Hugo Junqueira, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, UFSCar

Licenciado em Geografia pela Universidade Estadual Paulista Júlio de Mesquita Filho (Unesp – Presidente Prudente). Doutorando e Mestre em Educação pela Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCar). Professor e tutor dos cursos de graduação e pós-graduação do Claretiano – Centro Universitário.  Membro do Grupo de Pesquisa em Educação no Campo (GEPEC/UFSCar)

Maria Cristina dos Santos Bezerra, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, UFSCar

Professora Adjunta no Departamento de Educação da Universidade Federal de São Carlos DED/UFSCar. Possui Mestrado (2001) e Doutorado em Educação pela Universidade Estadual de Campinas (2007). Professora do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação/UFSCar. Membro do Grupo de Pesquisa em Educação no Campo (GEPEC/UFSCar). 

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2018-12-19

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Hugo Junqueira, V., & dos Santos Bezerra, M. C. (2018). The ideology of agribusiness in basic education. Perspectiva, 36(4), 1378–1397. https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-795X.2018v36n4p1378

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Vol. 36 No. 4 (2018): Dossiê Educação geográfica e suas nuances nos processos de ensinar e aprender

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