Práxis político-educativa do sujeito potencialmente revolucionário nas associações de moradores: a experiência da Associação de Moradores do Bairro Serrinha (1980-2021)

Abstract

The regressive-destructive crisis of capital, which erupted around the 1970’s, has been evolving aggressively against surges in social welfare. To some extent, such outbreaks pointed to potentially progressive developments inscribed in social issues. In pure pedagogical terms, the crisis of contemporary capitalism challenges us to operate with a type of education that is potentially situated beyond the point of view of capital. Therefore, we ask ourselves: considering the aggravation of the inhumanities in capitalism, how has been taking place the development of the class consciousness in relation to the potentially revolutionary social subject? The theme of this dissertation is the political-educational praxis related to the potentially revolutionary socialsubject. The research problem is the political-educational praxis of the potentially revolutionary social subject within Serrinha Neighborhood Association - Associação de Moradores do Bairro da Serrinha (1980-2021). The empirical referent is represented by Serrinha, a poor neighborhood of Fortaleza city, capital of Ceará, a state located in Northeastern Brazil. Our main objective is to understand how the political-educational praxis within Serrinha Neighborhood Association (Associação de Moradores do Bairro da Serrinha - AMORBASE) has contributed to the development of class consciousness among the social subjects who take part in that association, in a context of regressive-destructive structural crisis of capital. The theoretical-methodological framework is based on the contributions of historical-dialectical materialism, as this is a radical procedure that seeks the roots of the issues. Within this methodological horizon, we highlight the concepts of praxis and production of material existence (MARX; ENGELS, 2007), as well as the reflections related to the notion of praxis further developed by Lukács (2013), Sousa Júnior (2021, 2010), Konder (2018), Kosik (1972) and Vasquez (1977). From the reflections elaborated by the educator Sousa Júnior (2010), we also highlight the notion of the Marxian education program. We chose to make use of a qualitative study anchored in participatory and bibliographic research. It is, therefore, a case study. By welcoming activities that dialogue with the needs of the world of work and education, the politicaleducational praxis within Serrinha Neighborhood Association seems to provide insights that allow its participants to sustain that, within the scope of this political-pedagogical process, the dimensions that constitute the framework of the Marxian education program are present, as formulated by Sousa Júnior (2021, 2010). Therefore, in our point of view, AMORBASE's political-educational praxis has contributed to the development of the class consciousness of the subjects who take part in that collective.