Throw stones at geni: schools are meant to be ridiculed , how good are they at fighting back ?

Abstract

I operate in this text with the idea of thinking about the contemporary Brazilian school, especially the public one, based on the character Geni, from the song “Geni e Zepelim” by Chico Buarque de Hollanda. It is an analogy with the intention of problematizing the current attacks on this institution, based on the political demands of diverse social groups, in an attempt to control significant curriculum and teaching in the struggle to fix hegemonic meanings of what they mean by school. democratic. This text, which is intended to be post-structural, is part of my PhD studies in Education and affirms the school as space-time immersed in processes of subjectification and experiences of continuous experiences that allow areas of escape and / or acts of resistance to perceive itself as a space of the plural, as Geni, being what it is in the difference, “in its pain and delight”. As much as there is a privileged position of policy makers, within the macro-power scope, however, on the school floor, the subjects of education (students, teachers, technicians and administrative assistants) reconfigure and/or recontextualize the policy in the context of school practice.