Carlota Boto

Ética e educação clássica: virtude e felicidade no justo meio

The present study is an in-depth discussion of the interface between educational and ethical problems, understanding pedagogy as the art/science aiming at good education/instruction/training. For this purpose, the text will summon concepts from Aristotles ethics. Immersed in Classical Greek Thought, it will attempt to rescue a term which is originally interdisciplinary - paideia. Next, this essay tries to highlight some aspects of the illuminist concept of the theme, taking advantage of the Kantian notion of categoric imperative, which had been preceeded by Rousseaus opinion asserting that will - and not reason - would be the distinctive feature of the human race in a natural environment. Piagets idea of reciprocity ethics is also evoked here. Through a diachronic approach of the theme, concepts of classical authors who have debated the relationship between ethics and education will be analyzed, focusing on the sense Hanna Arendt conferred to authority as a distinctive criteria of the asymmetric relationship between educators (adult generations) and students (new generations). As an operating concept and assumption, Arendt advocates that the educational act necessarily entails a conservative dimension: the mission of educators is to protect the new generations from the world and the world from the new generations - so that they do not to destroy the accumulated supports and cultural heritage.

In favor of professional ethics: in search of a new paideia

O presente artigo procura discutir a atualidade do conceito de paideia, a luz do entrelacamento entre o original referente grego e a categoria operatoria do que aqui nomeamos uma etica em profissao. Trata-se de um estudo que busca formular algumas diretrizes para se pensar o tema do ensino e do aprendizado, metodologicamente partindo da acepcao de interdisciplinaridade. Assim, poder-se-a, fugindo das fragmentarias especializacoes do campo, recompor a arte do pensamento pedagogico, incluindo nela seus essenciais aspectos eticos. Desse modo, supomos possivel estabelecer para professores e estudantes contemporâneos desse terceiro milenio uma nova e moderna paideia.

Por uma ética em profissão: rumo a uma nova paideia

O presente artigo procura discutir a atualidade do conceito de paideia, a luz do entrelacamento entre o original referente grego e a categoria operatoria do que aqui nomeamos uma etica em profissao. Trata-se de um estudo que busca formular algumas diretrizes para se pensar o tema do ensino e do aprendizado, metodologicamente partindo da acepcao de interdisciplinaridade. Assim, poder-se-a, fugindo das fragmentarias especializacoes do campo, recompor a arte do pensamento pedagogico, incluindo nela seus essenciais aspectos eticos. Desse modo, supomos possivel estabelecer para professores e estudantes contemporâneos desse terceiro milenio uma nova e moderna paideia.

Por una ética en la profesión: rumbo a una nueva paideia

O presente artigo procura discutir a atualidade do conceito de paideia, a luz do entrelacamento entre o original referente grego e a categoria operatoria do que aqui nomeamos uma etica em profissao. Trata-se de um estudo que busca formular algumas diretrizes para se pensar o tema do ensino e do aprendizado, metodologicamente partindo da acepcao de interdisciplinaridade. Assim, poder-se-a, fugindo das fragmentarias especializacoes do campo, recompor a arte do pensamento pedagogico, incluindo nela seus essenciais aspectos eticos. Desse modo, supomos possivel estabelecer para professores e estudantes contemporâneos desse terceiro milenio uma nova e moderna paideia.

Crianças à prova da escola: impasses da hereditariedade e a nova pedagogia em Portugal da fronteira entre os séculos XIX e XX

This paper, as the just title indicates, intends to discuss about Portuguese pedagogical contest at the end of the XIXth century and at the beginning of the XXth century. The used documentary sources were magazines specialized in education, directed whether to the parents, or to the teachers. Such periodicals, that were including articles from reputed intellectuals and pedagogists of the epoch, had the objective to discuss the great questions internationally set within the educational area. They were talking a lot, during the New Pedagogy epoch, about the New Education, a tendency that was intending to bring the science development contributions to the educative area, and about the recent investigation practices, already in force in the countries considered as more advanced, more civilized. One of the themes that deserved a great notability within the specialists in that time, was the one that would give to the education the mission to fight, wether the social obstacles, or the limitations coming from the hereditariness. Against the biological and social determinisms, it was the role of the pedagogy to fight them. In such case, the educative act was seen as a social bet, that would be performed by a specific, specialized and necessarily renewed institution. The school, already considered as tradicional, was not up to the obstacles with which the new educators had to face. Then, it was necessary to modify the old method and content conceptions.

O Brasil que Portugal escreveu: pedagogia e política sem comemorações

This study focuses on the images of Brazil conveyed by XIXth century Portuguese textbooks, periodicals and intellectuals. Through the analysis of such documents, we intend to recreate some of the mental atmosphere that surrounded the Portuguese nations idea of Brazil and their perception of the themes of the Brazilian country, its people and of emigration. We believe that this approach will make it possible to understand the identities that shaped certain cultural myths as well as define distances and differences.This article analyses the relationship between (social and scholar) space and time and their relevance on structuring public primary education in Brasil. It is divided into three parts: improvised schoolhouses, schoolhouse-monuments and funcional schoolhouses, intending to distinguish three diferents moments of history of primary school, difined upon the phisical-architectural place taken by the school, as well as the various temporalities experienced in its interior, interlinked both with material and methodological changes on Brazilian education.

A escola primária como tema do debate político às vésperas da República

This paper proposes to analyse some aspects of the educational discourse taking place in Brazil at the end of 19th century. It seeks to identify the guidelines by means of which the new ideal of nationhood and the social place to be occupied by the school were shaped. Rui Barbosa proposes the indispensable alliance between the school and the vote. He believed it was really necessary to organize the liberal society.