QUILOMBOLA SCHOOL EDUCATION AND EMANCIPATION: the dialectical
affirmation in the face of one-dimensional educational modalities
Quilombagem. Emancipation. Utopia. Education. slavery. Frankfurt
School.
The research that resulted in this thesis was committed to investigating possible relationships
between the thought of the philosopher Herbert Marcuse, focusing on certain aspects of his
thought, such as: revolutionary subject, revolution, democratic socialism and utopia, crowned
with the criticism of late capitalism society, centered on the machine and its consequences:
containment, integration and consumption as techniques that inhibit the process of qualitative
social transformation, with quilombola school education, highlighting its basic characteristics:
territory, culture, identity, ancestry, memory, orality, religiosity and resistance, all
interspersed with quilombagem, understood as a revolutionary posture (MOURA, 2001). As
Marcuse's thought and the aforementioned type of education indicate some kind of
emancipation, we analyze the Enlightenment, political and human emancipation. In order to
fulfill this desideratum, we defined as a general objective: to investigate the dialogic
relationship between the emancipation suggested by Marcuse and the quilombola school
education and regarding the specific objectives we proposed to describe the enlightenment,
political and human emancipations, to understand the conception of emancipation elaborated
by Marcuse and analyze the basic characteristics of quilombola school education. We use
several authors, for example: Moura (2001; 2020a), Munanga (2020), d'Adesky (2018),
Fiabani (2005), Gorender (2016), Williams (2012), Menezes (2014; 2021), Tonet (2005),
Marx (2006) and Mészáros (2002), Marcuse (1973; 1999a; 1968), as well as articles and
theses. This is a bibliographical research with a critical-dialectical approach, whose object of
study is the dialogic relationship between the thought of the philosopher Marcuse and
quilombola school education and aims to answer/solve the following problem: how is the
dialogic relationship established? between the emancipation suggested by Marcuse and
quilombola school education? At this point, we present three hypotheses: first, the dialogic
relationship suggested is established naturally, since the marcusan emancipation is articulated
with several characteristics of quilombola school education; second, the dialogic relationship
is established in a critical-discursive way devoid of practical-transforming incidence and
third, the dialogic relationship, in the case under study, occurs fictitiously without any
historical basis.