TY - JOUR
T1 - From alienation to solidarity: Educational perspectives and possibilities in Brazil and the UK
AU - Mendes, Ernandi
AU - Costa, Elenice Rabelo
AU - Themelis, Spyros
AU - de Carvalho, Sandra Maria Gadelha
N1 - Early Title: Alienation, crisis and strategy in education: comparative perspectives from Brazil and the UK
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - In this paper, we examine how alienation plays out in conditions of advanced neoliberalisation in education. We discuss two examples which exemplify the depth and extent of alienation. First the attacks on critical thinking in education that have been spearheaded by the ‘School without [political] parties’ [‘Escola sem Partido’] project in Brazil. Second, the mental health crisis that is rampant among staff and students in the UK higher education. Drawing on Freire, we explore how ‘the organization of alienation’ can fuel acts of resistance and praxis which can help us reclaim education and society from the forces of the market. The examples we draw on in relation to Brazil and the UK have not yet become mainstream strategies, especially internationally, that can sustain a resistance movement in education, but they form successful local, in some cases national even, strategies that seem to be able to open new possibilities which can eventually help us find creative and effective ways to make the organisation of alienation the project for Being More that Freire envisaged.
AB - In this paper, we examine how alienation plays out in conditions of advanced neoliberalisation in education. We discuss two examples which exemplify the depth and extent of alienation. First the attacks on critical thinking in education that have been spearheaded by the ‘School without [political] parties’ [‘Escola sem Partido’] project in Brazil. Second, the mental health crisis that is rampant among staff and students in the UK higher education. Drawing on Freire, we explore how ‘the organization of alienation’ can fuel acts of resistance and praxis which can help us reclaim education and society from the forces of the market. The examples we draw on in relation to Brazil and the UK have not yet become mainstream strategies, especially internationally, that can sustain a resistance movement in education, but they form successful local, in some cases national even, strategies that seem to be able to open new possibilities which can eventually help us find creative and effective ways to make the organisation of alienation the project for Being More that Freire envisaged.
KW - alienation
KW - Brazil
KW - education
KW - Freire
KW - Marx
KW - praxis
KW - social movements
KW - solidarity
KW - UK
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85139163045&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1163/25902539-02040010
DO - 10.1163/25902539-02040010
M3 - Article
VL - 2
SP - 571
EP - 589
JO - Beijing International Review of Education
JF - Beijing International Review of Education
SN - 2590-2547
IS - 4
ER -