A sociologia da educação de Max Weber: o Clinamen na prática pedagógica

Abstract

This article consists, essentially, of an analysis of Max Weber’s thinking, in order to seek apossible contribution in the field of education on present. When expose his comprehension aboutthe rationalization process, having on bureaucracy as one of its most striking manifestations,Weber understands human actions as constituted by a permanent tension. There would not be ameaning in the world, with universal validity, that could guide existence. In this aspect, educationneeds to acquire another meaning, that is, an education that does the clinamen emerge andrevive, introducing on determinist mechanism the space of liberation, which consists in breakingthe inherent determinism in any objective situation and, in a deviant way, to promove aperturefor the exercise of autonomy. If to the teacher belongs the obligation to provide some hope forthe life of his students, it must be established from the recognition of the agonistic character ofexistence. To do in this way, is guarantee integrity and intellectual freedom.