The marxist program of education and the principle of praxis

• Autor(a) principal: Sousa Junior, Justino de
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Trabalho, Educação e Saúde (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://www.tes.epsjv.fiocruz.br/index.php/tes/article/view/1626
• topic: trabalho; práxis; educação; work; praxis; education

This article aims to affirm the idea of the existence of a Marxist program of education in which work, school and praxis as a political-educational activity stand out. It is argued that the problem of Marxist education is a complex elaboration in which various elements are shown organically articulated. The Marxist Education program appears related to the Marxist elaborations made in light of three important elements of everyday life (educational) of the working classes: the educational character of the contradictory relations of work (even if related to abstract work), period of school education, preferably together with the work, and, lastly, the political-educational praxis developed at different associative moments of workers in unions, political parties, places of residence etc., when workers act politically and collectively as a social class defending its interests and strengthening its organization and its political education/training as a potentially revolutionary social class. Starting from a new conception of the work and praxis relationship, we seek to discuss the primacy of work and the neglect of the praxis carried out by previous studies of the area. It is considered that this neglect of praxis mutilates and impoverishes the contribution of Marxist education program.