Pedagogia da utopia: o acesso à educação superior como elemento de emancipação das classes oprimidas

• Autor(a) principal: Matos, Leonardo Raphael Carvalho de
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da Uninove
• Texto Completo: http://bibliotecatede.uninove.br/handle/tede/2421
• topic: educação superior; emancipação; utopia; inclusão social; empoderamento; higher education; emancipation; utopia; social inclusion; empowerment; educación superior; emancipación; utopía; inclusión social; empoderamiento; CIENCIAS HUMANAS::EDUCACAO

This research analyzes access to higher education as one of the factors of social emancipation, focusing, in particular, on young people from the most economically disadvantaged classes. Therefore, the utopian dimension that is built from the arrival and permanence of these people at the university is taken as an object of research, in view of their existential desires and future possibilities of social, economic, cultural, etc. Considering that higher education is not enough to carry out an emancipatory project, it is observed, however, that, in the contemporary context, it has become a decisive element in society. The research started from the hypothesis that higher education represents, especially for young people from the most oppressed classes, not only a concrete factor of social ascension, through the profession, but a broader existential horizon, therefore even utopian, in which dignity and citizenship are carried out in the permanent search for being more. The sources used in the research, of an empirical-documental and bibliographic character, are organized under two perspectives. The first refers to the material collected in interviews, forms, focus group, quantitative data, among others. The second consists of three groups: a) books, theses, dissertations and articles dealing with higher education in Brazil; b) works dealing with human rights and education; c) productions related to the theoretical foundations of work. The theoretical basis of this research is based on Paulo Freire's thinking, particularly on his approaches to utopia, and on the foundations of Marxist sociology. As it is an empirical-theoretical research, from the case study, the basic procedures were developed from critical reflection on the analysis of the data collected and the bibliographic research in dialogue with the authors, books, theses, articles, among others. This work concluded that, taking into account the studied context, access and permanence in higher education is recognized as an empowerment factor, from the perspective of the interviewees, becoming, for them, an emancipation tool through the search for a life more dignified, which means the subjectification of a more hopeful and, for this very reason, utopian horizon.