Identity Policies And Education Policies: A Study About Identity

Abstract

The present study starts from the critical social psychology and emphasizes that the educational policy constitutes as an identity policy. This study, had considered that school reveals itself as socializing institution (in which identities are processed) and a place in which the intersection of various cultures takes place. In this context, the fundamental pillars of reflectionare: a biographical survey about public education policies daily lived in the context of the school; the conceptions of the syntagma identity/metamorphosis/emancipation; identity policies and political identities. The discussion approached a political dimension of education in an epistemological support associated with a political/ethical component. The debate led to a critical position of how the school, as an educational institution, is positioning itself in relation to identity constitution. This paper also denounces that configurations of the neoliberal ideology and the policies imposed on education, make it impossible for the individual to take communicative actions in the direction of emancipation.