Abstract:

The object of this study is repressive education as an institution of the social structure and how to reflect, in these social conditions, on an emancipatory education. The concept of education that we assume here is that our socialization process forms our perception and our conception of the world, in a dynamic that extends from birth to death. Educating implies preparing for a civilization project, which reveals the political content of the educational process. To develop this study, we return to the interdisciplinary research of the Group of sociologists and psychologists published in 1950 on the authoritarian personality, in order to explain the phenomenon of prejudice and its traits in the personality formation, not only from a socio-psychological perspective, but also from a political and educational perspective. It should be noted the relevance of the topic before the rise of conservative and reactionary movements at the beginning of this century.

Keywords:
Authoritarianism; Repressive Education; Emancipatory Education