O educador e as diferenças sociais: uma leitura da filosofia da educação de Richard Rorty

Abstract

The objective of this work is to present on which way Richard Rorty's philosophy, seen as philosophy of education, articulates  the question of social differences to the practice of the educator.  From the philosophical presuppositions of the pragmatistic theory,  the work tells about Rorty's proceedings set to affirm the need of  solidarity as a key to the problem equation of the social  differences. In the works related to this theme —where he debates  on black people, homosexuals, feminism, labour and unionist  movements etc — standing out the presence of a political utopia with a democratic nature, from which the author proposes a  new  glance about the educational process, to become it capable to  contributing with the socialization as well with the self re-description of social subjects.