A colonização da Escola pela racionalidade instrumental
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University of Lusophone Humanities and Technology
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O artigo, de natureza reflexiva, parte do pressuposto de que a organização escolar não foi capaz de ficar imune à hegemonia da racionalidade instrumental, a mesma que também se faz sentir em outras áreas da atividade humana, pelo que o nosso propósito visou revelar a sua reconfiguração e ressemantização enquanto mecanismos que a legitimam e naturalizam, intensificando a burocracia, da qual é expressão. Nesse sentido, sublinhamos a centralidade das plataformas informáticas enquanto mecanismo de controlo, ao mesmo tempo que se intensifica a hierarquização em termos de tomada de decisão, validando a ideia de que os atores educativos são instrumentalizados ao converterem-se em meios de perseguir os objetivos organizacionais. Damos conta de uma perspetiva mercantil inclusa no conceito de qualidade, que se mede em termos de resultados, e da competição que adquire estatuto de educação pedagógica, pois ao serviço do aumento da eficiência. A par destes aspetos consideramos a questão do diretor escolar, por reconhecermos a sua aproximação à figura do gestor tecnocrata, e os agrupamentos de escolas como resposta a uma lógica administrativa e racionalizadora. Fazemos alusão a Freire, Dewey e Illich pela recusa de uma educação que, em vez de emancipar, domestica e instrumentaliza. Palavras chave: racionalidade instrumental; racionalidade emancipatória; organização escolar
The article, of a reflective nature, assumes that the school organization was not able to remain immune to the hegemony of instrumental rationality, the same that is also felt in other areas of human activity, so our purpose aimed to reveal its reconfiguration and resemantization as mechanisms that legitimize and naturalize it, intensifying the bureaucracy of which it is an expression. In this sense, we emphasize the centrality of computer platforms as a mechanism for intensifying control, at the same time that the hierarchy in terms of decision-making is intensified, validating the idea that educational actors are instrumentalized by converting themselves into means of pursuing organizational goals. We account for a mercantile perspective included in the concept of quality, which is measured in terms of results and competition that acquires the status of pedagogical education, as it serves the purpose of increasing efficiency. Alongside these aspects, we consider the issue of the school director, as we recognize his approach to the figure of the technocratic manager, and the school grouping as a response to an administrative and rationalizing logic. We allude to Freire, Dewey and Illich for their refusal of an education that, instead of emancipating, tames and instrumentalizes.
The article, of a reflective nature, assumes that the school organization was not able to remain immune to the hegemony of instrumental rationality, the same that is also felt in other areas of human activity, so our purpose aimed to reveal its reconfiguration and resemantization as mechanisms that legitimize and naturalize it, intensifying the bureaucracy of which it is an expression. In this sense, we emphasize the centrality of computer platforms as a mechanism for intensifying control, at the same time that the hierarchy in terms of decision-making is intensified, validating the idea that educational actors are instrumentalized by converting themselves into means of pursuing organizational goals. We account for a mercantile perspective included in the concept of quality, which is measured in terms of results and competition that acquires the status of pedagogical education, as it serves the purpose of increasing efficiency. Alongside these aspects, we consider the issue of the school director, as we recognize his approach to the figure of the technocratic manager, and the school grouping as a response to an administrative and rationalizing logic. We allude to Freire, Dewey and Illich for their refusal of an education that, instead of emancipating, tames and instrumentalizes.
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Carvalho, M J C D 2022, 'A colonização da Escola pela racionalidade instrumental', Revista Lusófona de Educação, vol. 54, no. 54, pp. 35-48. https://doi.org/10.24140/issn.1645-7250.rle54.02