AUTONOMY AND SOCIAL CHANGE

a sociological review in dialogue with the Freire’s perspective

Abstract

This article does a sociological rescue of the of school’s understanding as a socializing device. It focuses on the perception of central sociologists to the Education Sociology and their view about the values that govern the hidden school curriculum. Take the liberal ideology as fundamental to the current education and demonstrates how it is implied by the principle of autonomy. Points some contributions to the field of Sociology to Education and seeks to show how the diagnosis of Bourdieu and Passeron is a starting point for rethinking the curriculum. At the end, suggests Paulo Freire’s concepts as articulators of alternatives to redirect teaching practices, searching, thereby, promotes social change and not, uncritically and tautologically, to reproduce existing dominant values.