A educação universal e seus restos : a segregação racial de adolescentes nas escolas

Abstract

This thesis addresses the racial segregation of adolescents in the school context. The research theme arises from an intervention experience carried out with adolescents in a public social welfare facility. Listening to adolescents at a Social Welfare Reference Center (CRAS) about the phenomenon of racial segregation present in the school environment sparked an interest in investigating the processes of segregation in the school institution and its effects on adolescents. The historical review of the constitution of modern education made it possible to understand how segregation is a mark of modern education, resulting from its universalizing project. Guided by psychoanalytic reading, especially Lacanian theory, the thesis discusses the notion of segregation articulated with the theory of discourses and adolescence. The idea to be defended is that the coupling between science and capitalist discourse is articulated to an ideal of “universal” education, with segregation effects. In Brazil, the marks imposed by the violence of the colonial process are present in racial segregation, with incidences in schools. Given the vulnerability of adolescence, the effects of racial segregation on black adolescent bodies become even more harmful. Finally, it is worth highlighting how psychoanalytic discourse provides opportunities for micropolitical interventions in different social spaces, with anti-segregation effects.