Political philosophy and democratic education in the context of deliberation and political agonism

The core purpose of this article is to make a critical exploration of the idea of democratic education. The thesis of the author is that there is a complementary relationship between deliberative and agonist models of democracy, defended by Amy Gutmann and Chantal Mouffe, which allows an understanding of education that, meets the moral demands of a democratic conception of citizenship. The text begins with an approach to the relationship between politics and education; then, there is a presentation of the agonal and deliberative perspectives of politics in the interpretation of democracy, to finally identify the points of intersection of both models and propose some lines of reflection on citizenship and its praxis.