Abstract

PEREIRA, Marcos Villela. Sobre algumas contradições da forma escolar. Rev. Diálogo Educ. [online]. 2010, vol.10, n.31, pp.633-643. ISSN 1981-416X.

This paper aims to question some contradictions that appears in general school form and, specifically, in the phenomenon of contemporary Brazilian education. They are: the right to education became compulsory in school, turning what was a political claim on a compulsory condition, whose disobedience is punishable by law, and that this model of education-for-all has been contributing to modeling school as a “total institution”. Lined in the historical review of some ideals of the Enlightenment and the evolution of contemporary capitalism, the article reaches the current Brazilian reality with the intention to speculate some modes of operation of the school as an institution that seeks to empower and at the same time, control.

Keywords : School Form; Human Rights; Total Institution.

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