Mímesis, educação e prática docente em Theodor W. Adorno

Abstract

The difficulties of education in fulfilling its tasks have been intensified day by day. We venture to say that it happens not for taking into consideration the hypothesis that individuals are suffering from some degree of irrationality, i.e. they do not always act according to reason, and that, as Adorno emphasizes, they do not escape from their authoritarian moment, when an individual acts in accordance with his interests, managing to forget other people’s rights. In view of this, the central focus of the dissertation is to examine the relationship between mimesis, education and teaching practice in Theodor W. Adorno. That is, the goal is to explain how the phenomenon of mimesis can act on teaching practice and how it can influence education, developing abusive behavior both in students and in teachers. This is a literature search, since it is designed according to published materials, consisting mainly of books and articles. It is based on critical theory under a dialectical-negative approach. At first the paper discusses the interrelationship of the concepts of mimesis and Clarification relying on the book Dialética do Esclarecimento. In the second stage of the work, the purpose is to address the relevance of mimesis in the educational process with support in the concepts of semi-erudition (Halbbildung) and cultural industry (Kulturindustrie). In the third stage of the research is shown how the relationship between mimesis and teaching practice and its philosophical implications in the educational-training process are made. Although the philosopher does not offer a position that fully meets the practical requirements because he said education is immersed in ambiguities that hinder closed positioning, the results of the research indicate the need to rethink education in its subjective aspects. They also indicated that teachers’ actions can be presented as mimetic behavior as they disseminate the practices of the dominant ideology favoring the maintenance of an education faced almost exclusively to the work force, requiring a posture of defiance and resistance on the part of both students and teachers and that therefore the policy initiative should be part of the routine practice of every teacher who needs the unconditional support of those who dream up the educational reforms so that they walk the wrong way to the ideological and political forms of domination and configurations of economic and political-cultural unfamiliarity and social alienation.