The moral disenchantment of the public school: an essay of critical comprehension

This essay, which is based upon the perspective of a comprehensive and criticalsociology, aims to contribute to the understanding and critique of a recent trend in Brazilianelementary school, herein called “moral disenchantment”. This is a social phenomenon that represents the gradual “reduction of...

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Autores principales: Ferreira, Gabriel Lelis da Fonseca; Universidade de Brasília, Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Sousa, Carlos Alberto Lopes; Universidade de Brasília
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Lenguaje:Portugués
Publicado: Universidade Estadual de Campinas 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.fe.unicamp.br/revistas/ged/etd/article/view/6401
http://biblioteca.clacso.edu.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=br/br-049&d=article6401oai
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Sumario:This essay, which is based upon the perspective of a comprehensive and criticalsociology, aims to contribute to the understanding and critique of a recent trend in Brazilianelementary school, herein called “moral disenchantment”. This is a social phenomenon that represents the gradual “reduction of moral diversity” in elementary schools due to a reconfiguration of both the educational demands from the society and the institutional offer of schools. Both press for the genesis of a new kind of moral education, whose contours, more or less uniform, reveal traces of a “business ethics”. This ethics tends to conceive of education increasingly as the “delivery of a service” and less as “humanistic formation”. In this essay, particular attention is given to the case of “public school”, which has gradually come to assume certain moral aspects of the so-called “school-enterprise”, in this general movement of homogenization of school moral diversity in Brazil. The analysis of the effects of disenchantment on the public school is carried out in a comparative perspective, given the same effects on other types of school: the “Catholic school” and “military” school”.