Public Education as a Social Right: challenges for the construction of a coordinated system in Brazil

• Autor(a) principal: Ferreira, Benedito de Jesus Pinheiro
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Katálysis (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/katalysis/article/view/1982-02592019v22n3p502

This study aimed to understand the challenges arising from the implementation of an educational praxis radically focused on human emancipation. Through a literature review, theoretically referenced in historical-critical pedagogy, the research analyzed fundamental determinations of public education in Brazil. Three closely related issues were addressed: the historical difficulty of establishing a national education system; the chronic problems of funding as a key element of educational policies, especially in recent decades; and the hegemony of learning-to-learn pedagogy, which open space for a discourse that harms the activity of transmission of historically produced human knowledge in its most advanced forms. The results point to the need to protect public education as a social right, linked to the struggles for an emancipatory educational project. This project needs to be supported by the production of knowledge about the Brazilian educational reality, based on a theoretical framework that can capture its contradictory nature, which constitutes a particularity of peripheral capitalism.