Abstract

BATISTA, MARIA ISABEL FORMOSO CARDOSO E SILVA. Education as a formative principle against prejudice and violence: reflections on possibilities and limits of education for differentiation in current society. Rev. Comunic [online]. 2015, vol.22, n.3, pp.21-34. ISSN 2238-121X.  https://doi.org/10.15600/2238-121X/comunicacoes.v22n3p21-34.

This article aims to discuss the relationship between education and the production of violence and prejudice. It starts with the notion of formation as a primary goal of education, formal or informal, and the direction taken by it are questioned during the development of Western culture in the 20th century, taking the decline of authority as an important element to analyze such directions. Because of these events, the merely adaptive and integrative formation – false formation – placed in favor of the production and reproduction of regressed, objectified and undifferentiated consciences. The integration between the particular and the universal, which ends with the differentiation and therefore the principle of individuation, remains the foundation of the current model of culture and composes the dynamics of fascism, of the formation of prejudices and of the production and reproduction of violence. Based on this dynamic of this “formation” process, is also discussed in this text, the role of social institutions such as family and school, which are configured as cultural mediators and therefore “forming” agents in today’s society. From these discussions are proposed questions and reflections on some points of the current education to think about its possibilities and limits in today’s society, towards the formation of critical consciences to oppose prejudice and violence.

Keywords : FORMATION; FORMATIVE PRINCIPLE; EDUCATION; PREJUDICE AND VIOLENCE; EDUCATION FOR DIFFERENTIATION.

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