TEACHER, WHAT DOES PHILOSOPHY STAND FOR? DIALOGUES CONCERNING ETHIC / PRA QUE SERVE A FILOSOFIA, PROFESSOR? DIÁLOGOS SOBRE ÉTICA

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2005

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The educational reforms of the 1990´s, launched on an international basis, have put forward Ethics understood as education for citizenship, as the central objective of pedagogic action. Proposals presented by international organizations such as UNESCO and BIRD aimed at educating competent citizens to perform in a globalized world, ruled by market principles in accordance to parameters set by neo-liberal politics. The Brazilian National Curriculum (PCNs) developed during Fernando Henrique Cardoso´s government and including a document focusing particularly on Ethics in education is the epitome of this attempt to connect Brazilian education to political action whose strategy for domination is the negation of other possibilities of social organization. In this context, the present work aims at inserting the thinking of Walter Benjamin in the current debate about Ethics in education, formulating the question of an ethical education in Terms of an intervention allowing the student to articulate his understanding of his own world, constituted by real life situations in combination with historical action determining the present moment. Based on an understanding of Ethics as a historical commitment and of any action capable of transforming this commitment as necessarily being rooted in it, we have talked to seven Primary school teachers, asking them to establish connections with the word Ethics and to consider the ideas underlying these connections.

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history thought education walter benjamin etica walter benjamin pensamento educacao historia ethics

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