EDUCATION IN PANDEMIC TIMES: POSSIBILITY OF FORMATION OR SILENCE AS BARBARISM

ABSTRACT

This article seeks to reflect on the conception of education and training in contemporary society from the theoretical framework of authors of the Frankfurt School, especially Theodor Adorno (1903-1969) and Max Horkheimer (1895-1973). It intends to understand the idea of the subject's autonomy, in a Kantian perspective of "intellectual maturity", opposed to the economic and social aspects arising from the ideological mechanisms of capitalism's domination. The constitution of this subject, in the logic of instrumental reason, represented by the cultural industry, uses ideological instruments capable of dismissing or weakening the individual, as well as preventing him from carrying out formative experiences and autonomously deciding on choices in this society. And, furthermore, it disregards the objective and subjective conditions that guide human action in the socio historical movement. In this context, by mystifying actions and allowing the admission and expansion of instrumental rationality, there is an obfuscation of what formation for autonomy is, thus leading to (de)formation. And, in times of the Covid-19 pandemic, training is increasingly damaged.