Compromisso político e competência técnica: 20 anos depois

This article re-reads the debate which happened in the 80s about therelation between the educators political engagement and his technical competence.It stresses that the most emancipated ideas (as those proposed in Antonio Gramscistexts) took the Brazilian pedagogical ideas into its dimension of politicalengagement, which also contributed to electoral victories of the Partido dosTrabalhadores (Laborers Party). In that time a certain gramscian trendy movementwas reference and synonymous to the most emancipated and free ideas, but todayin face of a complex and multifaced political reality it is necessary to deepen thereading of this authors ideas. A diffuse ideology of the left wing is no more asufficient reference to political engagement. So this article tries to understand thenew form of political compromise the educator and the intellectual in general needto carry on. For instance its necessary to redeem the value of doubt as a method;to understand the process of maturation of the democratic culture; to think againon the real process of uninterested politics and reaffirm that all pedagogical act initself has an implicit ethical political dimension, which means to put into questionthe bureaucratic compromise with political parties