Educação e indivíduo pragmático na crise capitalista contemporânea

Abstract

In this study we discuss the formation of the pragmatic individuality in the context of the contemporaneous capitalist crisis, with emphasis on schooling and how education is tuned to the immediate needs of today ʼ s mercantile logic. In light of the concepts of Mészáros, we describe the structural character of the capitalist crisis and its consequences for the strengthening of competitive individualism in the modern marketoriented society. Based on Heller, Vásquez and other Marxist thinkers, we discuss the possibility of a solid school-based education committed to the emancipation of the dialectic gender-individual dichotomy and, consequently, to new forms of organizing social relations.