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Education and capitalist work: historical approach and dominant views
| Resumo: | In this note the author states some problems concerning the study of the relations between education and work. The thesis argued by him is that the analysis of the nature of such relations cannot be correctly understood under the basis of two different and separate histories. As a matter of fact, the educational system is in a close correspondence with the workplace structures and the social division of labor in the capitalist mode of production. Therefore education assures its reproduction through the preparation of individuals for the production process, giving them the values, rules and patterns of behaviour required by their employers. Nevertheless education has a certain degree of independent dynamics, able to cause some contraditions (i.e.: overeducation and unemployment of graduates and to originate, in this way, some disfunctions as to the production processus. This perspective may be seen as the promotion of an objective necessity for a dialectic approach on the relations between education and work, the general features of which the author traces here. Besides the author describes two dominant currents as for as the conceptual scheme above mentioned: Dewey and the theory of social progress and the theory of social efficiency (Inkeles). |
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| Autores principais: | Tibúrcio, Luís |
| Assunto: | relações entre educação e trabalho sistema educativo divisão social do trabalho modo de produção capitalista relations between education and work educational system social division of labor capitalist mode of production . |
| Ano: | 1979 |
| País: | portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | artigo |
| Instituição associada: | Universidade de Lisboa |
| Idioma: | português |
| Origem: | Análise Social |
| Resumo: | In this note the author states some problems concerning the study of the relations between education and work. The thesis argued by him is that the analysis of the nature of such relations cannot be correctly understood under the basis of two different and separate histories. As a matter of fact, the educational system is in a close correspondence with the workplace structures and the social division of labor in the capitalist mode of production. Therefore education assures its reproduction through the preparation of individuals for the production process, giving them the values, rules and patterns of behaviour required by their employers. Nevertheless education has a certain degree of independent dynamics, able to cause some contraditions (i.e.: overeducation and unemployment of graduates and to originate, in this way, some disfunctions as to the production processus. This perspective may be seen as the promotion of an objective necessity for a dialectic approach on the relations between education and work, the general features of which the author traces here. Besides the author describes two dominant currents as for as the conceptual scheme above mentioned: Dewey and the theory of social progress and the theory of social efficiency (Inkeles). |
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