Emancipação e educação: utopias do Século XVI e propostas educacionais inovadoras da atualidade

Abstract

This work aims to analyse the existing relations between the current speech about the emancipation through Education, announced by the stated innovative educational proposals, and the titles published in the sixteenth century, like Utopia, by Thomas More, in which the emancipation was conditioned to a profound social change. The emancipation, as a category, was broached by Marx in the titles he wrote when young, either as a category of analysis of the religious emancipation (The Jewish Question), or as a category conditioned by the alienation (Philosophical-Economical Manuscripts). An Utopia, in a certain historical moment, which arises like a speech of movable bounds, which are always a step ahead the objective reality. It is also constituted as a title which was critical to what existed at its period. From this finding, the analysis of the emancipation speech, present at the stated ―innovative‖ educational proposals in the current days is proposed, which attributes to the power present in the individuality, in the subjectivity, in the leading figure of the pupil and in the emancipation of man, despising or disregarding the complexity of a wider social historical context. It is intended, with this proposal, to discuss the limits and potentiality of the stated innovative educational proposals.