Abstract

DI PIERO, María Emilia. The Forbidden Education: challenge to the school form or educational proposal functional for a soft capitalism?. Trab. soc. [online]. 2014, n.23, pp.377-388. ISSN 1514-6871.

The traditional school form has been questioned in many occasions and in different perspectives. In this article we are going to focus on the analysis of some critics that, presenting themselves as libertarian and surpassing alternatives, end up being functional for the new capitalism configuration. Therefore, we sustain that apologetical educational speeches of anti-authoritarism, of flexibility, of creativity, and of autonomy (understood as freedom to each person to make their own rules) are in congruence with certain types of business management that it is in the context of the capitalism new spirit, increases their relevance of individual responsibility for their own acts and deepen the individuation process. Then, we are going to analyse the documentary “The forbidden education”, released in august of 2012, which criticises the compulsory state school system promoting the end of traditional school form. In the first part of this article we are going to present the concepts of “form”, “grammatical”, “school culture” and “institutional program”, putting them in relation with the film analysis. In the second part, we are going to show and analyse critically some of the questions to the state monopoly of the formal education that de documentary try to introduce, sustaining that they present certain electivity affinity with the actual configuration of a soft capitalism.

Keywords : Traditional school form; Alternative proposals; Soft capitalism; New business management; Individuation process.

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