Aesthetics and ethics in Kierkegaard: inferences for the pedagogical culture of Southeast Goiás
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Pedagogical culture, Ethics, Aesthetics, AestheticismAbstract
The article seeks to analyze the pedagogical culture of Southeast Goiás, more specifically some of the educational impasses that have been manifested in basic education and in the formation of education professionals at the university. Our theoretical framework is largely based on Søren Kierkegaard's reflections on ethics and aesthetics, and on the studies about the Brazilian culture found in the works of Mario Vieira de Mello and of Regis de Morais. In view of these references and their analyses, these educational impasses are characterized in this article as manifestations of aestheticism in education. Initially, we describe Kierkegaard's intuitions about the esthetic and ethic modes of existence, and we confront them with data from studies we coordinated since 2003. The formation cultures in Southeast Goiás are the focus of these studies, both regarding the formation of education professionals and their action in the classroom. We concluded that that has been strong influence from aestheticism in the education culture of this region, and we point towards pedagogical, cultural, and political strategies for overcoming it. Given that it is a cultural phenomenon, we can infer that it is not restricted to the teachers and to students' actions, nor is it limited to the sphere of teaching practices. It is present in the university culture, in basic education, and in the management spaces of these different levels of teaching, as well as in the public policies for education.Downloads
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2011-08-01
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Aesthetics and ethics in Kierkegaard: inferences for the pedagogical culture of Southeast Goiás . (2011). Educação E Pesquisa, 37(2), 293-306. https://doi.org/10.1590/S1517-97022011000200006