Beyond death education from preschool education: Towards a Radical and Inclusive Pedagogy?

Abstract

It is normal to live in an appreciable unconsciousness, caused by generalized egocentrism and immaturity. Education based on competencies and knowledge is completely insufficient and contradictory, if we are talking about full education. Our education has lost sight of education. It is a decaffeinated and existential action, which excludes human depth from its corpus. That is why it lacks essential evolutionary meaning. Education based on the ego-consciousness vector is a necessary and undemanded complement to evolve inwardly, both personally and socially. It is heir to the teachings of great radical pedagogues, such as the masters of the Tao (Lao Tse, Zhuang Zi, Lie Zi or Huang Di), or the first Buddha. It is possible to enter through the atrium, through the main gate. The beginning may be the apparent end: death. It is not possible to educate for life without including the awareness of death. Education that includes death is a branch of a larger tree: the education of conscience. Pedagogy and Didactics of death, as sciences of education for death par antonomasia, propose to move from taboo and invention to educational imperative, with a radical and inclusive approach, that is, starting with us. The field of Death Education is essential, but there is a certain epistemological stagnation. We propose its rooting in the education of consciousness from preschool or early childhood education, as it is suitable for all education to evolve.