AGAINST THE COMMODIFICATION OF EDUCATION AND IN DEFENSE OF THE CITIZEN SCHOOL

Abstract

The present work discussed how the commercialization of education modulates in the formation of subjects. It is a letter to teachers in order to discuss how to produce reflections on these two important themes: education as a commodity versus education for citizenship. In this sense, it is known that in order to defend the models of education that turn to the context of the subjects and are engaged in dialoguing with the multicultural and singular expressions of societies, it is necessary to make a strong criticism to the treatment given to the education theme in the last decades . From the incursion of international sectors in the way of perceiving education to the systematic and structural dismantling of Brazilian education by neoliberal public policies. These policies give priority to the uncritical formation of the subjects, whose priority sense would be to provide knowledge that will lead them to exercise professions without expectations of growth or still unable to participate in the decision-making processes of society. Thus, when defending the school as a space to foster citizenship, one thinks of the critical and forceful formation of subjects who will be protagonists, autonomous and preceptors in decision-making that not only benefit them individually but also for the society they make part. Even thinking about the subjects still excluded from decision-making processes, such as social minorities. In this way, the citizen school in its institutional project will be concerned not only with propaedeutic teaching but also with training for the defense of life.