Which citizenship, which democracy, which education?

Abstract

The text has the intent of dialoguing critically with the text Revising the concept of citizenship: notes for a polytechnic education, of Adriana Gleisler, which seeks to "putting forward again the question of the meaning of citizenship", in the perspective of "identifying to which concept of citizenship the notion of polytechnic is affiliated". In this sense, this text, organized in three moments, intends to offer an alternative view to the one posed by the author. In the section, Which citizenship, in which democracy, we briefly discuss the concepts of citizenship and democracy, articulating them to the respective contexts of the so-called redemocratization and the Lula government. We seek, with this, to reveal the political option of the forces that work for the 'democratic transition' updated — in a certain manner — in the current government. In Which polytechnic education, we retake the concept of polytechnic education and, from it, we try to show how the political option of the alliancist countenance ended up cooling the socialist impetus, disarming the critical educational speech of its most important base: the fight for the overcoming of the class society. Finally, in The two faces of a mirage, we seek to present (once again) in a synthetic manner, the relation of political subordination both in the more general aspect and in the educational debate aspect.