The multiplicity of new approaches to an emancipatory school education within the Sociology of Education

Abstract

This study aims to analyze some aspects of sociological production on education that have been outlined in countries such as England, France and the United States. Starting from different perspectives, authors such as Michael Young, Basil Bernstein, Pierre Bourdieu, Michael Apple and Henry Giroux encouraged the reflections of this field when facing questions the relations between language, education and knowledge in the educational process and the importance of a critical and emancipatory conception of the education, establishing a new parameter for the reflections already outlined in the framework of classical sociological theory on education. Despite the difficulty in formulating new categories generated by the macro-sociological cut, this production had the quality to critically foster discussions about the applicability of the various matrices of social theory that inspired the reflections on educational processes from the second half of the twentieth century.