The crisis of capitalism in the 1970s led, in the face of the need to invest less and recover profits, a new strategy of labor exploitation, called flexibilization. In order to take account of the new productive format, the flexibilization agenda included labor legislation and normativity in the educational sector, marking the prevailing ideology in contemporary times. Both the laws of hiring the worker, and how to form him for the work were relaxed. And this new productive scenario has finally formed a new social arrangement, the Knowledge Society, whose emphasis is the importance of preparing for a labor market in which knowledge, information and technology take precedence, with a training, at the same time based on skills. Under the new idea, the new Law on the Guidelines and Bases of National Education (number 9.396/96) is approved in Brazil, which now requires higher education teacher training for basic education. Since the formation of teachers for Basic Education follows in a fragmented way, both between disciplinary areas and between levels of education, the country does not count in the institutions of Higher Education with a faculty or institute itself, which trains these professionals, with a formative common basis. Such conditions give rise to a dispute about the definition of where, when and how the training of Basic Education teachers should be carried out, and, above all, who is responsible for this task. In this field of contention, it is observed that the number of teachers with masters in Basic Education has grown significantly in recent years. The research then sought — in the light of the contributions of dialectical historical materialism — to understand why teachers of this stage of education seek the academic Masters in Education and why, after completing the course, they continue to work in Basic Education. The work involved the analysis of more than 500 curricula (from the Lattes Platform) of graduate students from three postgraduate programs in Education (PPGE/ PUCRio, ProPEd/ Uerj and PPGE/ UFRJ), and 12 interviews with graduates of the three PPGE who remained in Basic Education after the conclusion of the course. The hypothesis that was raised and sustained after the analysis of the data obtained was that more and more Basic Education teachers are looking for the master s degree as an alternative of continuous formation, with a view to filling gaps left by an insufficient initial formation, as well as to increase the same employability and to be able to enjoy better conditions of work, also within the scope of the Basic Education itself (greater field of employment than Higher Education), and not only, for the performance in the Higher Education.