University education and the contradictions present in the consumption and production of knowledge

Abstract

This essay aimed to analyze university education in the contradictions that present themselves in the conception of teaching when separating the consumption and the production of knowledge within the field of school culture. The method used had, as its investigative proposition, the philosophy of education in the sense of giving meaning to the transmission of knowledge and its relations with formative processes. The result of the analysis initially mentioned indicates that the construction of quality in education, throughout the formative process, could be established in a conception of teaching that may oppose the separation between bachelor’s and teacher education degrees and, primarily, in understanding university education in the unity between the production and the consumption of knowledge in the field of school culture. It is concluded that, when thinking about formative processes in overcoming the contradictions present in the separation between the consumption and the production of knowledge, they are directly associated with the construction of a broadly democratic society in relation to the transmission of school culture, from a perspective of equality for all and, especially, from a perspective that breaks with the paradigms of a merely instrumental science of cause and effect.