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Alliance for progress; hegemonic project; Education
This thesis analyzes the educational processes implemented by the state governments of Aluízio Alves and Monsignor Walfredo Gurgel (1961-1971), highlighting the developmental policy and funding of the Aliança para o Progresso Program in the State of Rio Grande do Norte. This program, guided by the US foreign aid policy for Latin America, had in its proposal the idea of consolidating democracy and preserving freedom; ideas that were linked to a broad hegemonic project. To this end, economic and social development would be encouraged with a view to economic and social control and domination. To forge this development, these governments, in line with international recommendations, used planning, administrative organization, project financing and education as a strategy. In this sense, we discussed a series of technical and financial cooperation agreements and the recommendations of the Inter-American Conferences that generated public policies involving national education. Through documental research by the state government, reports from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ECLAC, the Inter-American Education Meetings, letters, official letters from INEP and CBPE, government department dossiers, reports from the embassy, North American consulates, national newspapers and our work sought to demonstrate that behind the developmental discourse adopted by the state government, there were subtle forms of hegemonic domination that aimed to forge an education directed towards the training of manpower to meet the demands of the international market and contain the advance of left in Northeast Brazil.