A look at the horizontal and emancipatory processes in the educational activity

Abstract

This text approaches the importance of educational acts as elements of comprehension in the formative processes of a critical and proactive citizenship and their being in the world. In this line of ideas, the book The Ignorant Schoolmaster from French teacher Jacques Rancière was taken as the main key point to build the perspective given here. Thus, the first part of the text highlights the conceptual discussion given in the book, in terms of the relations between student and teacher, teaching and learning and numbness and emancipation. In second place, the main elements of an education which promotes horizontal, humanistic and emancipatory encounters are discussed. The main point gives great importance to learning processes from Professor Rancière’s perspective, supporting these ideas with other valuable perspectives such as the ones developed by Bauman and Bourdieu. Lastly, the text deals with the need to establish emancipatory pedagogies, so that learning processes allow dialogue, astonishment capacity and cooperation, taking other philosophical and pedagogical postures into account, such as the ones by Gadamer and Freire.