Identity, emancipation and ethical formation in the school context. Or, why is school necessary in the 21st century?

interview with José Sérgio de Carvalho

Abstract

This interview aims to present the reflections of the professor José Sergio de Carvalho about the role of school in 21st century education, in a context in which the social changes caused by the digital revolution raise a broad debate about the function, structuring and even the need of the school institution. José Sergio de Carvalho, professor of Philosophy of Education at the University of São Paulo, says that what makes the school an absolutely necessary institution is not so much learning - which can take place in other environments - as other formative attributes that neither the family nor society and other institutions are capable of providing. For him, school gives the subjects, among other things, the opportunity to expand their range of possibilities for the constitution of themselves and ethical insertion in the world as well as to emancipate themselves from social and family determinants