Emprendimiento y educación: el “valor” de una fuerza de trabajo (de)formada

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to analyze the document Entrepreneurship in Education, published by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). More specifically, it aims to identify the concept of entrepreneurship and the formulations concerning the category of value present in the publication. To this end, general considerations on the relationship between neoliberalism and entrepreneurship are presented in order to situate this phenomenon within contemporary strategies of capital accumulation. Next, the OECD’s formulations on entrepreneurship and education are analyzed to question the relationship between entrepreneurship and value creation. From this perspective, the formulation found in Chapter IV of “Capital” is revisited, which sheds light on how value is created in society based on transformations in labor processes. Based on the documentary analysis and the return to the Marxist formulation of the category “value,” the paper concludes that fragile notions of value creation—such as those underlying the OECD's ideas on education and entrepreneurship—contribute to distancing workers’ educational formation from an understanding of the foundations of the socioeconomic dynamics that determine the growing inequalities of wealth and power in capitalist society.