PENSANDO A DEMOCRACIA E A CIDADANIA NAS INTERFACES HISTÓRICAS E CONTEMPORÂNEAS

• Main Authors: Maria Irinilda Bezerra, Giane Lucélia Grotti
• Format: Article
• Language: Portuguese
• Published: Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul, Campus de Naviraí 2017-12-01
• Series: Perspectivas em Diálogo: Revista de Educação e Sociedade
• Subjects: Cidadania; Democracia; Educação
• Online Access: http://seer.ufms.br/index.php/persdia/article/view/4073/4057

The education not only of Brazil, but of several countries, especially in Latin America, has been directed in accordance with international capitalist interests, nowadays more markedly than in the early days of the organization of public education systems, when these have expanded under the influence of the Enlightenment ideals. In this direction, this study aims to discuss the relationship between education and citizenship thinking about alternatives of educational and social transformation with a view to making social spaces more democratic and emancipatory. To this end, we carried out a bibliographic study, seeking to understand how Brazilian society has haved constructed the logic of exclusion. This logic at the beginning of its formation was done by denying the right of a good part of the population to attend school. In the present day, this denial of citizenship is done mainly through the expropriation of the working class of its economic rights and also through the misinformation provided by the mass media. The internal and external economist interests ended up creating multiple forms of social inequality, and although we recognize the difficulty of modifying the structures of society based on social injustice and duality, we still have to construct an “ethic of rebellion”, rejecting the fatality of structures. In this way we can think of alternative projects of a more just and egalitarian society, in which the different protagonists of history, those who had been historically forgotten and illegitimated, should have space.