Ativismo conservador e educação: relações entre campo político, campo religioso e campo educacional em uma escola de periferia

Abstract

The general objective of the research was to investigate the relations between the political field, the religious field and the educational field based on Pierre Bourdieu's formulations. Our work came to be the analysis of a case study in a public school in a city on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. We work with an “ethnographic approach”, considering the school as a small fragment of the educational field in which the effects of political/religious actions would be affecting. In fact, intentional “evangelical” actions related to the exercise of the teaching function were observed, which affect students, with practices of moral surveillance and concrete effects on the behavioral patterns of religious spectrums of conformation of the reproduced and reaffirmed customs within the school environment. Being these actions of “evangelical” background are related to the reproduction of the class condition and more favorable insertion in the economic field, since it is directly related to the way most school employees enter through the actions of political patronage, a group of a local conservative oligarchy that has dominated the city since 1960, but adapting itself to new formats of clientelistic behavior, in which the “reaffirmation of identities and religious principles” became a guarantee of permanence of employment ties through the construction of local political clientele.