Pedagogy for the future: bogdan Suchodolski’s contribution to thinking about education

Abstract

This text aims to articulate the contributions of Bogdan Suchodolski (1903-1992) to current education. The question that permeated the analysis was: how can the author contribute to our teaching action in public education? The route adopted also reveals the method of analysis, a bibliographical research based on historical-dialectical materialism. This first involves getting to know the life and work of the Polish thinker, his fight for the education of the working class and his political activities. He fought utopian propositions even on the left, in addition to bourgeois pedagogy, based on the historical analysis of philosophical currents in conjunction with the Pedagogies of Essence and Existence. He defended an education for the working class, a “pedagogy focused on the future”, which was an expression of concrete and permanent struggles. Faced with the advance of capital and conservative and reactionary thinking, Suchodolski helps us think about education beyond this society and aimed at the working class.