Abstract

ALVES, Fabio Lopes; BARROS, Eduardo Portanova; ABREU, Claudia Barcelos de Moura  and  SCHROEDER, Tania Maria Rechia. EDUCATION IN THE INTERNET AGE: INTERVIEW WITH MICHEL MAFFESOLI. ETD - Educ. Temat. Digit. [online]. 2022, vol.24, n.1, pp.4-13. ISSN 1676-2592.  https://doi.org/10.20396/etd.v24i1.8665214.

Michel Maffesoli, born on November 14, 1944 in Graissessac, France, is a sociologist in love with Brazil and frequently comes to debate what involves the actual and the quotidian in a time he understands as post-modern. A student of Gilbert Durand, he took up the chair of Émile Durkheim at the Sorbonne (Université de Paris- Descartes) in 1981, where he remained until September 2014. He is currently professor emeritus and honorary member of the French University Institute ad vitam. He considers himself as a thinker of post-modernity or contemporaneity who seeks to highlight the fundamental changes (the root of life together), that´s because, for him, the current crisis is not just economic, but “societal”. In this interview, the dialogue with Maffesoli was based on four axes: 1) academic training; 2) understanding of the educational phenomenon in contemporary times; 3) research carried out; and 4) reflections on contemporary political aspects. The interview sought to show how the French thinker deals with the changes that the internet has brought to the field of education and, in particular, to the teacher-student relationship. In this dialogue, the authors who contributed the most to his education also appears as well as the relationship that Maffesoli established with the thought of Karl Marx, Max Weber, among others, and the understanding about the university environment.

Keywords : Michel Maffesoli; Contemporary education; educational challenges; urban tribes; Sociology of Education.

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