Quem tem medo da pedagogia?: Contributos da teoria contemporânea da educação para resistir ao "regresso ao básico"

Abstract

This paper departs from a set of attacks on pedagogy and accepts its apology. It refers to childlike ways of thinking about education in defence of a poor pedagogy, a weak education and a strange infancy. It gathers a set of theoretical exercises that call for a more human and less humanistic education. Jacques Rancière's (2002) and the way of Jacotot's (the ignorant schoolmaster) adventure which question the key-place of education: explanation and the underlying inequality between student and teacher; Jorge Larrosa's (2002) concept of experience questions the activity, a sacred place of modern pedagogy; and Gert Biesta (2006, 2010a) that tackles the taken for granted need to have foreseeable ends in education through the theory of a pedagogy of interruption.