overview of the brazilian education: contributions to a policy based on evidence

This article reports recent scenario of Brazilian Education (High School and Higher Education) by analyzing mainly data from the BILE (Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics), NISRE (National Institute of Studies and Research Educational Teixeira Anisio), CIHE (Coordination for Improvement Higher Education), NCSTD (National Council for Scientific and Technological Development) and their relationship with the educational policies of the country. Together, these data point to the need to increasingly invest in advanced training for teachers in order to make them able to face these times of lifelong learning and knowledge disposable. This is possible only if investments in integrated multi-and transdisciplinary educational research are able to stop the boxes of specialized disciplines, breaking the boundaries that define specialties and methodologies