Abstract

SCHLESENER, Anita Helena. Percepção e conhecimento na aprendizagem infantil a partir de escritos de Benjamin. Educação e Filosofia [online]. 2010, vol.24, n.48, pp.387-408. ISSN 1982-596X.

This work develops a refection about some writings of Walter Benjamin about mimesis and education. Benjamin place in question the education bourgeois and theirs practices and reflect about children's vision, that be distinguished from adult’s experience. The objective is accentuate how the children accomplish his appenticement with exercise of imagination, fantasy an sensitivity. To play means it child to recognize it world and to identify with it. The child does not imitate the adult world, but she invents its world when playing. The childish perception while a discovery process of the world has an aspect revolutionary if considered the fundamental beginning for the education of the masses. Benjamin suggests a pedagogy that does not look to adapt to the requirements of the adult world (of the work and the instrumental reason), but aims at to garantee to the children the accomplishment of its childhood.

Keywords : Education; Childhood; Walter Benjamin.

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