Animalidade e educação moral : cenas da vida selvagem na escola

Abstract

The present study is an investigation of behaviors of (in)discipline and (in)subordination to the principles of moral education, specifically those related to aspects of human animality. It presents self-referential scenes that contemplate episodes of this kind and are full of metaphors related to the Animal Kingdom and natural beings. From the theoretical point of view the work draws mainly on the works of Freud, Heidegger and Deleuze and, most prominently, is inspired by the philosophy of Nietzsche. It seeks to understand animality as a creative power and it is from this perspective that the scenes are thought out. Before, however, the contextualization of the problem of animality is promoted and the tension between animality and humanity, related it to human formation. Elements relating to moral education are also thematized, such as civility, sociality and civilization, as well as the binomial instincts/institutions. In addition, the current meanings of the terms human and humanity are problematized. It approaches the theoretical discussion about the concepts of moral and ethics in the field of philosophy and the arguments of authors who propose amoral criticism. Another concept that stands out it is experience, once one of the objectives of the work is to problematize events with transforming potential putting it on the scene. At the first moment of the self-referential report, it presents scenes with events of (in)discipline and (in)subordination experienced by the researcher in his teaching practice. In the second part of the narrative, it presents scenes inspired by conversations with educators, news published in the media and excerpts from literary works. It is considered fundamental, lastly, that education takes as its task the stimulus to what has been called a perspectivation and uses animal power to reinvigorate the meaning of the verb to live together. At the end of the work, there is an appendix titled About the Beasts, in witch the characters that appear in the scenes are listed and described in detail in a manner similar to a bestiary.