Abstract

BRISKIEVICZ, Danilo Arnaldo. The vita activa and the challenges for education from Hannah Arendt. Educação. Santa Maria [online]. 2020, vol.45, e36201.  Epub Aug 18, 2023. ISSN 1984-6444.  https://doi.org/10.5902/1984644436201.

The thematic focus of this article is Hannah Arendt's discussion of active vita and her three activities that are labor, work and action and their relationships with education. The objective is to explain how, in the present world, due to the victory of animal laborans and / or homo faber [the intense production of durable goods by labor] there has been a devaluation of political action in space public, linking this phenomenon with the Arendtian understanding of education as preparation for the common world. We show how for Arendt the school is a preparatory space for full citizenship with the arrival of the young people to the civil majority, a space for tests of the public life in the common world that will be inherited by the students. The method used is the bibliographical research of classic texts by Hannah Arendt as The human condition and its texts on education, as well as extensive research on its commentators. The expected results are: (a) the conceptual demonstration of the challenges of education for the full exercise of citizenship in today's world in the face of the victory of animal laborans and homo faber as well as (b) the conceptualization of education for Hannah Arendt. One conclusion of our studies is that by education as understood by Arendt, it is possible to reflect on the social role of the school and question its function of teaching to the full citizenship that can express itself in public happiness.

Keywords : Citizenship; Action; Political Philosophy of Education.

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