Adorno and pedagogy of clarification: the problem and update of emancipation in contemporary educational field

• Grant number: 11/22677-7
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: February 01, 2012
• End date: December 31, 2012
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Education
• Principal Investigator: Alexandre Filordi de Carvalho
• Grantee: Lilian Barbosa da Silva
• Host Institution: Escola de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (EFLCH). Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP). Campus Guarulhos. Guarulhos , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The main objective of our project is to evaluate the theoretical conditions by which the problem of emancipation happens in the field of contemporary education. In order to understand this problem we will use T. W. Adorno's thoughts as our study basis. In special his theory of PEDAGOGIA DO ESCLARECIMENTO EM EDUCACAO E EMANCIPACAO (1995). The hipothesis is that "pedagogia do esclarecimento" is the tool that will activate our education as a formation experience (Bildung) for the resistance and contradiction of the failure of contemporary culture. The failure of contemporary culture promotes certain kinds of formation that makes individuals smaller, reducing their potentials to adaptative patterns of society. Even if it has a price to barbarize the human condition. The relevance of this project is to demonstrate the emancipation is an urgent and important theme to discuss and think about the means and strategies of education in our contemporary culture. It also will question what we are doing with the current condition of being human. (AU)