Abstract

DALBOSCO, Claudio Almir  and  MARASCHIN, Renata. THE CRISIS OF EDUCATION: LIMITS OF THE NEXUS BETWEEN ADULTHOOD AND DEMOCRACY. Hist. Educ. [online]. 2023, vol.27, e121900.  Epub Oct 31, 2023. ISSN 2236-3459.  https://doi.org/10.1590/2236-3459/121900.

This essay investigates the crisis of education in Theodor W. Adorno, taking Adriano Januário's appropriative reconstruction as a critical interlocution and confronting it with other interpretations of Adorno's thinking. Addressing the diagnosis of the present time, the text argues, with quasi-formation theory and adult education, that for Adorno the pedagogy of enlightenment based on the human ability to think for oneself is a strong core of resistance against fascist and authoritarian mentalities. The essay also reflects on why the option to translate Mündigkeit as adulthood and Halbbildung as quasi-formation is, rather than just a matter of style, mostly a matter of content. Without denying emancipation (Emanzipation), such option makes the Adornian theory of education as resistance more consistent with his own diagnosis of the present time developed in the 1950s and 1960s. In the final part, the essay questions the nexus between adulthood and democracy intended by Adorno, seeking to complement it with John Dewey's notion of democracy as a way of life. Thus, the essay indicates a future possibility of investigation that seeks the reciprocal complementation of the educational ideas of these two authors.

Keywords : Education; adulthood; resistance; fascism; democracy.

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