A democracia como processo: política e educação no pensamento de Tocqueville
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2009-12
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Although we can’t find a systematic text among Tocqueville’s writings debating and
analyzing educational issues, there is no doubt that the author is concerned with
instruction and civic formation of citizens along his theoretical opera, as much as in
the letters and political speeches. Not denying relevance to the educational institutions
for the civic formation of citizens in a democratic state, but far from establishing
a direct bind between learning and citizenship, Tocqueville shifts the focal point of
civic formation to the political action. It is the own exercise of citizenship that prepares
to the political life, for he believes that democratic principles like freedom and
equality between citizens rise alive only in the measure that men act together in the
convivial public arena. Such conception implies to realize that the fate of democracy
is not given a priori, but it is only a possibility depending on the men concerned.
Starting from Tocqueville’s analysis of the nature of the democratic state, we propose
to investigate the development of citizenship by means of political action and to
debate the limits and possibilities for the citizen’s formation, trying to extricate the
relation between politics and education in his thinking.
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Democracia, Igualdade, Liberdade, Processo, Ação política, Cidadania, Democracy, Equality, Freedom, Process, Politic action, Citizenship
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REIS, Helena Esser dos. A democracia como processo: política e educação no pensamento de Tocqueville. Contexto & Educação, Ijuí, v. 24, n. 82, p. 97-110, jul./dez. 2009.