STATE, SOCIAL POLICIES AND CRITICAL HISTORICAL PEDAGOGY

The article aims to reflect and intervene in the debate about the possibilities for socialists to act within the public school of capitalist society with a critical but propositional perspective. To do so, it reflects on the class character of the State and, by extension, its public policies, the historical nature of education, as well as its specifically human character, and, finally, the contradictory character of the public school in capitalist society, which, at the same time that it reproduces bourgeois ideology, enunciates the universalization of education and the socialization of knowledge. The result of such reflection is a position in favor of pedagogical intervention inside the public school in defense of the teaching of the most developed knowledge, of an omnilateral human formation that is the result of the rupture with the alienation of individuals and society, and of the affirmation of the need to overcome capitalism and build socialism. Such positions refer back to Critical Historical Pedagogy.