JÜRGEN HABERMAS AND “COMMUNICATIVE ACTION” APPLIED TO EDUCATION, PUBLIC SAFETY AND SCHOOL COMMUNITY: REFLECTIONS ON THE OCCUPATIONS OF SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN SÃO PAULO (2015-2016)

Abstract

This article briefly studies Jürgen Habermas’ theoretical precepts of “communicative action” in the education and security sectors, as well as it was analyzed how much they can influence the behavior of school communities. The main objective was to verify whether “communicative action” can explain individual and collective actions in these areas, observing the occupations of high schools in the state of São Paulo between the end of 2015 and the beginning of 2016. To limit the focus, in these three dimensions, the following clippings were considered: in “education” – public education, more precisely high school; in “security” – within the Military Police of the State of São Paulo, internal communication between the institution’s command and the military police officers who provide services directly to citizens, observing that there are 645 municipalities where these services occur; and in the “school community” – the feeling of solidarity evidenced in the context of the occupations of state high schools, seeking to understand whether such theoretical precepts can help to explain it. In the end, it was possible to ascertain that the theory developed by Habermas can help in understanding the nuances of the issues studied here.