Political Neutrality” in Education? Part II: The Illusion of Institutional Neutrality

— Maria Fernanda Silva Assis, MSc candidate in Law at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG)[1], and Fernando Romani Sales, PhD candidate in Constitutional Law at the University of São Paulo (USP)[2]

The starting point of this text, as well as our previous one, is the growing number of demands from various sociopolitical actors calling for an alleged “political neutrality” in education. We challenge this argument in two parts, drawing on a distinction we consider essential: demands for political neutrality in the conduct of scholars in the performance of their academic activities (teaching, research, publishing,

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