Abstract

GOMES, ELISABETE XAVIER. WHO'S AFRAID OF PEDAGOGY? CONTRIBUTIONS OF CONTEMPORARY THEORY OF EDUCATION FOR RESISTING THE "RETURN TO BASICS". Rev. Bras. Educ. [online]. 2015, vol.20, n.63, pp.949-973. ISSN 1809-449X.  https://doi.org/10.1590/S1413-24782015206308.

This paper departs from a set of attacks on pedagogy and accepts its apology. It refers to childlike ways of thinking about education in defence of a poor pedagogy, a weak education and a strange infancy. It gathers a set of theoretical exercises that call for a more human and less humanistic education. Jacques Rancière's (2002) and the way of Jacotot's (the ignorant schoolmaster) adventure which question the key-place of education: explanation and the underlying inequality between student and teacher; Jorge Larrosa's (2002) concept of experience qusestions the activity, a sacred place of modern pedagogy; and Gert Biesta (2006, 2010a) that tackles the taken for granted need to have foreseeable ends in education through the theory of a pedagogy of interruption.

Keywords : childhood; otherness; education; pedagogy.

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