An epistemological dialogue among the praxiology of pierre bourdieu and the epistemologies of the south of boaventura de sousa santos
International Journal of Development Research
An epistemological dialogue among the praxiology of pierre bourdieu and the epistemologies of the south of boaventura de sousa santos
Received 19th January, 2020; Received in revised form 01st February, 2020; Accepted 11th March, 2020; Published online 29th April, 2020
Copyright © 2020, Ibbertson Nobre Tavares et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Neoliberalism is in full development in the most diverse countries and, thus, affects relevant fields of society; among these, school education (at all levels). Understanding that education must promote the emancipation of the student, does it, inserted in the logic of capitalism, truly fulfill this function? Or, on the contrary, does it respond to the interests of the dominant? Reflections like these, supported by two of the most relevant theorists of the last decades, which we aim at in this work. In this bias and from the theoretical review of Pierre Bourdieu's praxiology and the Epistemologies of the South of Boaventura de Sousa Santos, we trace an epistemological dialogue explaining the converging points among the authors, and these are the ones that guide our considerations regarding an emancipatory education.
