Abstract

BIESTA, Gert. The duty to resist: on schools, teachers and society. Educação. Porto Alegre [online]. 2018, vol.41, n.1, pp.21-29. ISSN 1981-2582.  https://doi.org/10.15448/1981-2582.2018.1.29749.

In contemporary societies there are many expectations about what schools should do. These include equipping children and young people for the world of work, turning them into democratic citizens, or bringing about a cohesive and inclusive society. What unites such expectations is that they approach the school as a kind of instrument for solving societal problems. The school is treated as a function of society and thus as an institution that should be functional and useful for society. The danger with this way of thinking is that other questions - such as what it is that the school should take care of or stand for - easily disappear from sight. In this paper I explore how we might answer the question about the special and unique ‘task’ of the school, arguing that the school should not just be seen as a function of society but also has an important duty in resisting what society desires from it.

Keywords : Education; Resistance; Qualification; Socialization; Subjectification.

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