A herança cibernética: desafios educacionais em um mundo de automação.

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2006

RESUMO

Drawing on the theoretical and technical tools of mathematics, electronics and computer science, cybernetics has established itself as one of the driving forces of the modern world. Automation, which is part of our cybernetic heritage, greatly diversifies the forms of production relationships, and therefore poses new and urgent challenges, as it rapidly reshapes society. On the other hand, it opens unprecedented opportunities for human emancipation. Until now, automation has served mainly the concentration and abuse of economic and political power. It has also been a cause of unemployment and deskilling of workers. Because of its pivotal role in the mass production of goods, automation has contributed to consumerism, and the alienation that follows it. The unleashing of automated systems revolutionary potential, aiming at a state of social well-being, requires the repositioning of human competences, currently challenged by daily technological advances, which materialize into increasingly complex and autonomous devices and systems. Drawing on the study of automation in industrial plants and in aircraft, this work intends to shed some new light on the educational challenges to be met in promoting a more meaningful, sensible and responsible cooperation between people and automatons. Based on Vieira Pintos vision of technology as an emancipating tool and on Paulo Freires vision of education as emancipation, it is purposed that new educational practices are needed in order to form people able to understand, design and operate increasingly effective cybernetic devices, to humankinds advantage. Although human beings cooperate with automatons both in heoretical and in practical matters, only humans are beings of práxis, and as such,intentional, social and committed to one another. It is suggested that the education of fully competent people be achieved through the fostering of three Aristotelian intellectual virtues, namely epistéme (theoretical knowledge), tékhne (know-how) and phrónesis (practical wisdom).

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automação autômato cibernética education automation educacao tékhne episteme competência competence phronesis cybernetics educação computação computing phronesis episteme tekhne

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