BRAC (ব্র্যাক): adesão ao programa de educação de base comunitária para crianças em situação de vulnerabilidade social em Bangladesh
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Este artigo fornece uma análise crítica e histórica sobre a adoção da BRAC por uma Educação Primária Não Formal (EPNF), desmistificando a educação funcional ‘conscientizadora’ em Bangladesh durante a década de 1980. A questão central deste artigo é o motivo de a BRAC ter adotado a EPNF, em 1985, nos parâmetros de suas necessidades. Neste estudo analisou-se o programa de educação da BRAC, de 1973 até 1985, prestando especial atenção ao contexto internacional neoliberal da década de 1980, a mudança política da indústria de ajuda humanitária ocidental e a relação da BRAC e de seu fundador com estruturas de poder locais e com regimes consecutivos de Bangladesh (Fateh, 2020). Os documentos do currículo da BRAC, os projetos de pesquisa, os relatórios avaliativos e as declarações feitas por seu fundador, Fazle Hasan Abed, foram analisados. Os resultados sugerem que, além de apoiar as crianças em situação de vulnerabilidade social, a adoção da BRAC pela EPNF se deu pelo bem do crescimento da organização, bem como à sua submissão à estrutura de poder local e ao panorama neoliberal dominante da indústria internacional de ajuda humanitária.
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