SCHOOL NEOLIBERALISM AND THE TIME ALLOCATED FOR MOURNING IN INSTITUTIONAL SCENARIOS OF EDUCATION

Abstract

The article presented here aims to discuss the mourning process and time within the modern school context, where performance and good performance in tests and assessments are more important than the psychosocial development and emotional needs of students. The so-called Public-Private Partnerships, extremely common in the educational scenario in Brazil after the 1990s, where the private initiative is associated with the State in the conduct of public school institutions, further intensifies this neoliberal ideology. Mourning is a painful and intense process, natural to human development, but it needs to be closely monitored and given due attention, especially when the bereaved individual is still in the training stage, that is, in childhood or adolescence. The choice of the theme is justified by the relativization and the tendency to suppress the feelings of the students when a process of mourning begins in the classroom, caused by the death of one of the school's colleagues, so that academic performance and performance not be harmed. The research methodology is descriptive and qualitative and can be classified as a bibliographic research. The results point to the importance and the gravity potential that a grieving process, not managed in the healthiest way, can have on the psychosocial development of children and adolescents, thus having the school's responsibility to conduct this grieving process with understanding, listening active and empathetic, placing students and their feelings as a priority.