Abstract

JACKIW, Elizandra; BENVENUTTI, Cristiane Dall’Agnol da Silva  and  HARACEMIV, Sonia Maria Chaves. THE LOVINGNESS IN THE ACT OF EDUCATING IN PAULO FREIRE AND HUMBERTO MATURANA: possible approximations. Revista Teias [online]. 2021, vol.22, n.67, pp.7-17.  Epub Feb 14, 2023. ISSN 1982-0305.  https://doi.org/10.12957/teias.2021.61965.

This article aims to weave philosophical approximations between Paulo Freire (1921-1997) and Humberto Maturana (1928-2021) regarding the concept of lovingness and its unfoldings for the educational act. It is characterized as a literature review study (Hohendorff, 2014), in which we sought to highlight approximations between the authors in order to reflect on the senses and meanings of lovingness as an ontological field of human relationships, especially those established in the act of educating. Although they come from different epistemological matrices, since Freire (1921-1997) is based on praxis and dialectics in search of a liberating pedagogy, while Maturana (1928-2021) explains knowledge from a biological point of view, points of convergence are possible from the understanding of love/ loving kindness as a condition for human socialization. Understood as the acceptance of the other, in his/her difference and diversity, love must be the foundation of the educational act for the construction of horizontalized spaces of coexistence in the search for the subject's critical and emancipatory consciousness.

Keywords : education; lovingness; educational practice; Paulo Freire; Humberto Maturana.

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