The Cultural Industry at school

This study aims to analyse how the cultural industry interferes in the education of 5th grade students at the Graziela Gabriel Municipal School in the municipality of Castanhal, Pará. To this end, a descriptive study with a qualitative approach was carried out. The data was collected by administering questionnaires to two 5th grade classes. The informants were eight randomly selected students and two teachers. The main objective was to obtain information that would allow us to analyse the participants' understanding of the ways in which the culture industry interferes in students' education, preventing effective critical and emancipatory education. In this sense, the theoretical framework for analysis was based on the Critical Theory of Society, especially Adorno and Horkheimer and the studies of Brazilian researchers such as Bruno Pucci, Wolfgang Leo Maar, Rodrigo Duarte and others. The results show that the culture industry prevents the critical education of students in the school environment, because it is restricted to the interests of the market and alienated consumption.