ABSTRACT
This article presents a proposal for defining what is persecution against educators in Brazilian basic education. To do so, it starts from the perspective of democratic education based on critical pedagogy, outlining what a desirable democratic participation is in the construction of educational communities. By contrast to this desirable participation, an action as persecution against teachers is defined when the analysis of it based on four criteria shows methods and objectives that are antidemocratic and contrary to educators’ autonomy and authority. The four proposed criteria are: the targeted object, the employed method, the relationship of the actors with institutional spaces for participation, and the objectives and horizons of these actions.
Keywords
Democratic education; Persecution against educators; Discourse of indoctrination; Hate against teachers; School without party