DIALOGUES BETWEEN FREIRE AND BOURDIEU AT THE MUSEUM EDUCATION

Abstract

This paper presents a section of an ongoing master's research project at the Federal University of Minas Gerais on the National Policy for Museum Education. The central objective is to analyze the articulation between the theories of Paulo Freire and Pierre Bourdieu in the field of museum education, investigating the presence of principles and conceptions aligned with these authors in the policy text. Methodologically, the dissertation aims for qualitative research of a critical-interpretative nature, based on the construction of analytical categories derived from the authors' theoretical framework and applied through deductive content analysis. The results of the first phase revealed a significant gap in scientific production within Information Science, identified in Database in Information Science, regarding the direct articulation between Freire and Bourdieu in discussions on public policies and museum education, in contrast to the greater density of studies found in the Brazilian Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations. It is concluded that, despite the convergence between Bourdieu's diagnosis of social structures and Freire's emancipatory perspective offering a relevant path to understanding museum education as social and political practice, contributing to the debate on democratization and expansion of the educational role of Brazilian museums, there are still gaps for these dialogues within the field.