A escola, o professor e o aluno: considerações sobre o papel da educação na sociedade capitalista.

Capitalist society implies thinking about the type of education that the school under the principles of this system imposes on class society. From a bibliographic review on concepts of Historical-Dialectic Materialism and Historical-Critical Pedagogy, an analysis of the reality of the current school was sought in order to contribute with some findings about its function and the teacher’s role, for its possible transformation. The objective is to describe the social function of education in the capitalist school, with brief considerations about its intentionality in the history reproduced in the teaching work. The text presents concepts that, in their entirety, establish the principles that guide this conception of education and teaching, based on the formation of theoretical thinking, namely: capitalist society, education, school, teacher, theoretical thinking, among other concepts. It bases the conceptual field of the teacher and the school from the systematization and analysis of these concepts and the intrinsic relations to them. It is concluded that an “exercise” was carried out on the need to reflect and raise awareness about the educational possibilities of the student through a critical view of the current society, as well as, to verify the limiting conditions that the school proposes to its students, hindering their transformation and humanization and, in a way, preparing for the economic adjustment of capital, through the labor force.