A cidade e o governo dos homens: sobre o lastro educacional da urbanidade contemporânea / The city and the government of men: on the education foundations of contemporary urbanity

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IBICT - Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

27/07/2012

RESUMO

The present study aims at analysing the discursive correlation between contemporary city life and education, starting from one kind of problematization founded on Michel Foucaults thought. More specifically, Foulcautian theories on representation, truth, history and genealogy were mobilized so as to serve as a basis for the investigation procedures addressed to the selected sources. For that aim, the starting point was detecting a plethora of initiatives geared toward prompting pedagogical/formative measures in the most different contexts and contemporary urban devices, in which education practices are found to permeate various circumstances which are external to the school sphere. In this sense, the international proposal of educating city is emphasized, as it comprises the thematic support under analysis in the present research, and is deemed both a proclaimed and fugacious horizon of articulation among certain modes of city organization and ways of existence for its dwellers. Based on the hypothesis that the educational foundation of initiatives of such an order would not be something related exclusively to the present times, the choice was made for putting it in a strategic plan consisting of other city models considered ideal in different points in history. Thus, the first part of the investigation consists of framing an analytical scenario targeted to some fictional urban projects; among them four historical references were given emphasis: Republic, by Plato; Utopia, by Thomas More; The City of the Sun, by Tommaso Campanella; and Walden II, by Burrhus Frederic Skinner. Following this, an inquiry was made into each of these urban idealized models, by adopting as reading vector the education arrangements related to them. Once such a scenario was explored, and bearing in mind what it offered to build a sketch of the relations among education, modes of government and subjectification processes, the contemporary urban/educational issue was more thoroughly examined. Through a sort of analytical chiaroscuro game, the aim was now to question the rationalities which support it, now to confront it with the city ideals previously discussed, in order to finally be able to place it in the core of a complex panorama, which reveals an entanglement between rigid lines of government of lifestyles and heterotopical irruptions unforeseen by the idealizations which proclaim such a contemporary scenario. By reflecting on such issues, it is possible to state that education performs a paradoxical position in the encounter between the city and its dwellers, being at the same time invited to sanction the exercise of freedom and to subject it to the intents of the urban order.

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cidade educadora educating city michel foucault michel foucault processos de subjetivação subjectification processes cidade e educação city and education educational governmentality governamentalidade educacional

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