ABSTRACT:

This article is based on an interpretative analysis of the processes of economization, depoliticization and consequent education’s goals narrowing in the most advanced societies in terms of neoliberalization. It aims to rescue the need for political empowerment of citizens through schooling, in order to react to those processes and to the misadjusted way they face the resolution of many contemporary problems. Its organizational structure includes the analysis of the erosion of homo politicus under the effect of neoliberalization, the reductionism of the education goals, the empowerment as telos of schooling and some curricular guidelines that seem necessary to that empowerment from the school institution. Not forgetting to ponder, within the terms of the analytic-interpretative methodology, both the possibilities and the difficulties that are placed to the effective strengthening of the power of citizens in educational systems, that are nowadays under a strong pressure from neoliberal international political agents.

Keywords:
Empowerment; Citizens; Schooling; Educational Goal