Formação cultural: arte e cultura convertidas em instrumentos da preparação para o trabalho

Abstract

This study treats about formation offered by two schools, one from public system of Minas Gerais s State and one from private system. The central objective from this research was to identify and to analyze how are defined tasks and the functions of school, based on appreciation on cultural and artistic activities, beyond this, to identify and to analyze how are produced diagnosis, defined educational objectives and actions to equalize the educational daily troubles regarding on formation. The hypotheses of this research are uttered by: a) on analyzed documents there are an increasing tendency on school sphere to incorporate subjects related to cultural activities like a way to adapt school to historical context; and b) even if the changes are visible and cultural activities in schools has a serious propositions, predominates the formation directed to work. In order to verify these hypotheses, this work made an analysis on several documents made in a very different scope; first of all documents made on international scope, after others made on national scope, after what was time of state sphere, and, finally, on local sphere, wherein the documents was produced by schools. The results from this work were constructed by comparison through information extracted from analysis on distinct documents. The results obtained, largely, confirmed the initial hypotheses from this research. Based on Critical Theory, especially on Herbert Marcuse, on Theodor Adorno and on Max Horkheimer, this study shows the relationship among work s world and the fresh attempts to step up artistic and cultural activities at schools, these like an expression of transformation of the same activities in support to improve quality of contemporary education