ABSTRACT
This chapter analyzes how the current teacher education policies in Brazil have been strongly influenced by the so-called hegemony of corporate and market education in this country and all over the world. It presents some official data about the expansion of higher education in Brazil. The chapter shows how this expansion has been taking place especially via the exponential growth of the private sector and how it affects the teacher education programs there. It discusses a strong tendency for teacher education in Brazil today: for-profit private institutions offering evening and increasingly online learning programs. The chapter explores the urgent necessity of some important reversals in the current teacher education policy for radical change of the educational scenario in Brazil in the near future. Online learning, mainly in higher education, is another "market" that has grown exponentially in Brazil in recent years.
