The interfaces between philosophy and education based on Adorno

Abstract

The theme of this study is “Education in Adornment: formation or semi-formation?” Adorno is one of the great exponents of the Frankfurt School, which although he does not have a treatise on education, has made great contributions in his works to this theme. In the dialogue with this theorist, we want to discuss the formation for enlightenment preached by the enlightenment thinkers, especially Kant. However, the formation that was installed did not help to make society better, on the contrary, it took man on a path of competition and barbarism, where human formation became the product of mere meritocracy. This research is bibliographical in nature and to discuss the ideas presented, we used the following authors as theoretical support: Horkheimer, Mass, Brandão, Bourdieu and Freire. These authors sought to unravel which barriers exist in schools and culture that prevent human formation from fulfilling the role of leading men to make decisions for themselves without the supervision of others. Some sociological theories claim that, in a class society, school institutions act as instruments for the maintenance of a more alienated, dependent society, going against the subject's process of clarification and autonomy. But education is an instrument capable of removing men from the semi-education in which they find themselves, guaranteeing them the condition of
autonomous subject.