Abstract

TAFURI, Diogo Marques  and  JUNIOR, Luiz Gonçalves. Popular education and the discourse of eurocentric political economy. Revista da FAEEBA: Educação e Contemporaneidade [online]. 2015, vol.24, n.43, pp.63-74. ISSN 0104-7043.  https://doi.org/10.2015/jan.jun.v24n43.006.

This essay stems from an epistemological position that considers the educative practices that occur beyond the pedagogical relations within the educational system. Recognizing that knowledge is also constructed via social practices that take place outside of school, this paper aims to theoretically substantiate the links established between the ways lower-income groups act and think economically, against the historical and cultural framework with which they materially and symbolically create their own existences, and the system of categories derived from the paradigms of a modern, Eurocentric political economy. Using arguments based on texts related to this theme, the discussion focuses on the importance of considering popular economic action as a social practice capable of shaping the ways such people are educated to deal with life. Through a historical reconstruction of the epistemological foundations of the contemporary political economy, we seek to question the constructed nature of such educative experiences by drawing upon the existence and operation of historically established ideological systems. The essay concludes with some considerations concerning popular social practices and their relations with knowledge and power as viewed from a Eurocentric perspective of modernity.

Keywords : Popular Education; Political Economy; Eurocentrism.

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