Educação e sensibilidade : tensões e desafios

Abstract

This dissertation addresses the investigation of the meaning of sensitivity in the contemporary world and its implications for the field of education, identifying two sources of tension and two challenges. The way in which sensitivity has been considered in western culture has oscillated between devaluation and exacerbation, which has resulted in the importance of aesthetics in every field of life and culture. The tensions and challenges identified for education are not new, but appear powerfully in the contemporary world. The research is philosophical research that tried to identify how the authors have addressed this issue, and how it affects the field of education. To understand the current characteristics that refer to the sensitivity dimension in an incisive manner, we primarily used the works of Wolfgang Welsch, Christoph Türcke and Michel Lacroix. The two tensions the tension between reason and sensitivity and between routine and spectacle and the two challenges the approach toward corporeity and of feelings and emotions are not restrictive for education and can contribute to the widening of the interpretive horizon. Finally, the aesthetic experience is presented as a way to access sensitivity and care as an expression of a sensitive ethos.