Education, regressive citizenship and reduction of the modern social contract

Abstract

This paper is the result of bibliographic and documentary research, whose object was the relationship between citizenship and education in Brazil today. The research problem was to identify the extent to which regressive citizenship, understood as an action aimed at reducing social rights, has impacted the modern social contract and, in it, the educational and non-school educational processes, observing the actions of two regressive social movements: MBL (Free Brazil Movement, or Movimento Brasil Livre, in Portuguese) and “Escola sem Partido” (School Without a Party).