Educação escolar - unidade e multiplicidade: crise, paradigma, dialética e pedagogia inaciana

Abstract

Our reflection starts on the finding that school education is suffering a moment of tension and crisis. The origin and the explanation for this phenomenon can be found in the coexistence, in the school environment of two paradigms, both opposite and divergent: one from the unity and the one from multiplicity, each one with its own features built in distinguished cultural moments. The former in the Modern Age and the latter in the Post-Modern Age. Based on an anthropological understanding which finds the human being constituted by desire and pursuit, at the same time, from the unity and the from multiplicity, we propose a dialectical method as a tool for the understanding, the approach and the overcoming of the two antagonistic paradigms surpassing the harmful aspects and keeping the achievements of each one for the educational practice. Then, we present some discussions starting from the dialectic, seeking a synthesis between the unity and the multiplicity. At the end of the study, we investigate some aspects of the Ignatian Pedagogy - a pedagogical purpose of the Jesuit education - demonstrating, from its documents and its educational tradition, as it is itself, dialectically, facing, and overcoming of the mentioned tensions and the dynamic feature of the crisis in school education