Conduzir e conformar: o que a escola faz ao instituir práticas de moralização? Pensar a educação moral no Brasil com Émile Durkheim

Abstract

This article will seek to discuss what the school does when it institutes practices of moralization in this space. The use of the term “moralization” used here is understood as the morality that aims to be practiced and inserted in people’s behavior. There is no way to think about morality as inserted in the education system without considering its importance in the belief that a well educated and moralized population would guarantee the adequate functioning of social life. This vision, quite widespread in the pedagogical literature and in the discourses evoked in the field of education, is initially brought by the influence of Catholicism and the Jesuits in Brazilian education, being later strengthened by the republican ideals that take education as one of the pillars of the national organization and subsequently echo the theory of French intellectual Émile Durkheim.