Plataformização da Educação Pública Paranaense nas gestões de Ratinho Jr.: entre o controle digital e a privatização escolar

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the educational policies implemented in the state public education system of Paraná during the administrations of Ratinho Jr. (2019–2022; 2023–2025), with an emphasis on the intensification of neoliberal logic. It is based on the premise that such policies cannot be understood in isolation, but rather within the broader context of structural transformations in the world of work, marked by flexibilization, informality, and deregulation — core features of the productive restructuring of capital in its neoliberal phase.

One of the focal points of the analysis is the process of platformization of education, which has led to increasing precarization of teaching work and deepened mechanisms of control and surveillance in public schools. To support the analysis, the study adopts the category of totality as its theoretical-methodological framework, grounded in the Marxist tradition. This approach enables a critical articulation among the multiple determinants that structure social phenomena.

From this perspective, the educational policies currently underway are understood as part of a broader project to redefine the role of the State and dismantle historically achieved social rights. The article also discusses the strategic role of trade union organizations in this scenario, with particular attention to the actions of APP-Sindicato. In this regard, it revisits the relevance of the Political, Trade Union, and Educational Training Program promoted between 2007 and 2014.

Finally, it argues that political and trade union education is an indispensable tool for strengthening collective action and organized resistance against the advance of neoliberal policies in education.