Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: THIAGO MACEDO DE CARVALHO

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STUDENT : THIAGO MACEDO DE CARVALHO
DATE: 25/07/2025
TIME: 15:00
LOCAL: Sala de Defesas do PPGSOL UnB
TITLE:

Education between emancipation and reproduction: the Life Project and the formation of subjects in the New High School

KEY WORDS:

New High School; Life Project; Neoliberal Rationality; Unidimensionality; Critical Theory.

PAGES: 77
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Sociologia
SUBÁREA: Fundamentos da Sociologia
SUMMARY:

This research investigates the education sought by the New High School, focusing on the Life Project curriculum component, with the aim of analyzing how neoliberal rationality manifests itself in the current educational model and seeks to conform students to its logic. The Life Project was chosen because it represents two basic dimensions of this configuration: (a) as one of the pillars that structure and justify the New High School - present since the National Common Core Curriculum; and (b) as a compulsory subject in the school curriculum. The research hypothesis mobilizes the concept of unidimensionality coined by Herbert Marcuse, to consider whether and how the Life Project acts in the ideological conformation of social agents, by suppressing the multiple dimensions of the human being and subordinating them to the interests of the market, especially by privileging instrumental reason. In this process, values such as entrepreneurship, self-responsibility, meritocracy and flexibility tend to be internalized and reproduced. The methodology adopted is content analysis, with the Life Project textbooks approved in the PNLD 2021 as the empirical corpus. The dissertation also links one-dimensionality to the “new reason of the world” described by Christian Laval and Pierre Dardot, establishing connections between the rationality of advanced industrial society and neoliberal reason, as a kind of inheritance. The theoretical framework includes Pierre Bourdieu, Paulo Freire, Lélia Gonzalez and Sueli Carneiro, with the aim of comparing two formative models: one aimed at reproduction and the other at emancipation. Given the importance of the context of ethnic-racial relations in education and in the production of knowledge, the research incorporates discussions on the device of raciality, epistemicide and the myth of racial democracy as essential analytical keys for critically reflecting on school education in the Brazilian context.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 1804106 - STEFAN FORNOS KLEIN
Interno - 2273018 - EDUARDO DIMITROV
Interna - 3291596 - JACQUELINE MORAES TEIXEIRA
Externo à Instituição - ENRICO PATERNOSTRO BUENO DA SILVA - UNESP