Abstract

STRECK, Danilo R.. Racionalidade ecológica e formação de cidadania: entrevista com Gerd Gigerenzer. Educ. Pesqui. [online]. 2014, vol.40, n.03, pp.829-843. ISSN 1517-9702.

The subject of this interview is the research on ecological rationality carried out at the Max-Planck Instuitute for Human Development, in Berlin, and its implications for education, especially for citizenship education. The studies on ecological rationality focus on the processes of decision making in a world in which human activity happens in a context of uncertainties, where a complete evaluation of factors is practically impossible. The assumption of the research is that cognitive processes cannot be dissociated from social and cultural realities, and that therefore the identification of the heuristics used in making decisions can be an important instrument for the formation of autonomous thinking. Of special interest from the pedagogical perspective is promoting the development of the capacity to understand and deal with the limits and possibilities of the scientific logic on which educational processes are largely based, and the development of forms of knowing that are as much or more determinant than that one. Gigerenzer emphasizes the role of collective and interdisciplinary work to promote creativity in research and teaching, as well as to make decisions in daily life.

Keywords : Ecological Rationality; Citizenship; Heuristics; Uncertainty.

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