O reprodutivismo nas escolas de educação pública básica

Abstract

This study perceives human labor as an action for production of material and/or immaterial goods, which are present in teaching and in any other production activity. Foremost, they are of utmost importance for the capitalist mode of production in the present context. The theory of reproduction, which is a significant component of this paper, interacts with the historical materialism and presents class conflict as a reference for the revolutionary praxis, which enables a capitalist infrastructure and superstructure transformation. Thus, notwithstanding the theory of reproduction, which is inevitable in the current social structure, the teacher may try to intervene in the tangible reality in order to transform and revolutionize the world in favor of a society free of exploiters or exploited people. In order to understand this practice, we will perform a bibliographic research, in which we will study Dermeval Saviani’s texts, among others. The works of Louis Althusser will be used as base reference in order to understand the concepts of the Ideological State Apparatuses (ISA) and their reproductivism. In this regard, this study aims to show that the current Brazilian educational system, as an ISA, seeks to contribute to the maintenance of capitalist exploitation and to the perpetuation of a ruling class in a power position. We also aim to answer the following question: to what extent workers’ and students’ revolutionary praxis can direct the historical process to a distinct course other than that essential to the capitalist mode of production, breaking its reproductivism? Therefore, it is a qualitative and bibliographic research.