Desidades (Oct 2020)
Epistemologias do Sul e cotidiano escolar: Desaprendizagem, desobediência e emancipação social
Abstract
Epistemologies of the South and everyday school life: Dislearning, disobedience and social emancipation This text argues that the possible contribution of the school to the processes of social emancipation requires that it produces learnings and dislearnings, enabling disobedience to what is learned, understood as a human specificity, and the obedience to ourselves. Dislearning would function as a means to displace us from the hegemonic ideology, which conceives the school as just a space for learning, allowing us to enter into the debate about the problem represented by socially learned “knowledge” that hinders the learning that is democratic, emancipatory and favorable to social and cognitive justice. Rules and learned standards are challenged by humanity, since its inception, producing dislearnings that, later, make it possible to formulate new rules and understandings of the world. Nowadays, this means conceiving the processes of social emancipation as processes that demand us to challenge, question and overcome prejudices, hierarchies and competitive values typical of the capitalist, colonialist and patriarchal societies in which we live. This is what we intend to show readers by relating everyday school life, disobediences and dislearnings, learnings and social emancipation.
