Responsibility and guilt: considerations concerning the taboos over the magisterium

Abstract

In this work, the observed practices and spoken languages originated from different places in the daily routine of a graduation institution will be discussed, whether by the place occupied by the students’ appointments, or by the teachers’ discourses or, in addition, by the institutional practices that confirm elements of domination in the contemporaneous culture. It was possible to articulate these different forms of expression with the taboos concerning the grade and the teacher’s profession. The emphasis is in the questioning of the conditions offered both for the professor actuation and for the student formation, in a Pedagogy course of a private graduation institution in the city of São Paulo. The cultural formation crisis, analyzed by Theodor W. Adorno, contributes to the study of the objective conditions offered by the contemporaneous society to the individual formation.