Rosa Alfredo Mechiço

Ideology, Politics and Axiology: Three Ways and Assumptions to Think about Educational Progress in Mozambique

This reflection aims to be a simple contribution, in the most significant way possible, to the debate on the ways and assumptions to think about educational progress in Mozambique. It is, therefore, a reflection that, starting from an ideological discourse, and being based on the political perspective, flows into axiological reflection, that is, on the values that, according to Castiano and Ngoenha, are configured as being maximum exponents of education in the Mozambican conjuncture. The idea of educational progress, from a generic point of view, is also scrutinized by several Mozambican thinkers. However, the reading and interpretation given by the thought of the Mozambican philosophers Castiano and Ngoenha finds its possibility of application in the current Mozambican scenario, characterized, to a large extent, by instability and educational crisis. Thus, based on the paths and assumptions of ideology, politics and axiology, approaches with a very significant echo in Mozambican education, a digression will be made with the purpose of demonstrating that Mozambique, with discernment and wisdom, can make use of the tripod or the triple ideology, politics and axiology to overcome the current situation of educational crisis, to bring about substantial changes, to build and maintain an education system capable of strengthening educational institutions, to moralize formal education, and to ensure robust and transparent education.