School and democracy

Dermeval Saviani

• Publisher: Autores Associados
• Year: 2019
• eBook ISBN: 9788574964188
• Topic: Education
• Subtopic: Education General

As indicated in the title, the axis around which the content of this work revolves are the relations between education and democracy. If it is reasonable to suppose that democracy is not taught through undemocratic practices, it must not be inferred that the democratization of internal relations within the school is a sufficient condition for preparing young people for active participation in the democratization of society. It is not simply a matter of choosing between authoritarian or democratic relations within the classroom, but rather of articulating the work developed in schools with the process of democratization of society. The pedagogical practice contributes in a specific way, that is to say, pedagogically, to the democratization of society insofar as one understands how the question of democracy is posed with regard to the proper nature of pedagogical work, which, in turn, implies a real inequality (at the point of departure) and a possible equality (at the point of arrival).

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Summary
• Foreword
• Preface to the 43rd Brazilian edition
• Preface to the Uruguayan edition
• Presentation
• Chapter 1: Theories of Education and the Problem of Marginality
• Chapter 2: School and democracy – I, The stick bending theory
• Chapter 3: School and democracy II Beyond the stick bending theory
• Chapter 4: Eleven Theses on Education and Politics
• Appendix: Seventy Years of the “Manifest” and Twenty Years of School and democracy: Balance of a Controversy
• Annex: Letter from Zaia Brandão
• References
• About the Author