A corporeidade no ensino fundamental: na busca de uma educação emancipatória

Abstract

Discussion about the need for changes in the current education system has increased in the last years, due to the easy access to the knowledge, as well as to changes in the students‟ profile. The tutor found in the twenty-first century should abandon the banking education and, instead, he should think on his student as a certain person consisting of various dimensions besides the cognitive. With the aim of developing a most autonomy and emancipatory education, the corporeity was studied seeking to understand the human being as a whole, its movement, emotion, feeling, and cognition; which allow it to experience new expressive forms of feeling, thinking and acting. Thus, in this work we aimed to research about the corporeity in the practices of the first year in the elementary school. We carried out the literature review about themes related to education, emancipation and corporeity. These approaches all owed us to describe the existing relationships between different areas, and to verify whether they may contribute for a most liberating and less oppressive education. In addition, we analyzed the planning of pedagogical practices in the class under study. We used the qualitative research for a case study based on the analysis of documents obtained from a public school of the municipality of Lavras, State of Minas Gerais. Results show that the corporeity may contribute to the most autonomy and emancipatory education; because the involved know better about their body, emotions, and feelings and they can express them. This makes possible the self-knowledge and more critical attitudes about themselves, or about the others, as well as about the environment surrou nding them; which can make them less influenced by the standards of the cultural industry and by the capitalism. Regarding the school under study, we could see that there is a concern with the comprehensive training. The semiannual planning obtained from the secretariat of the municipality makes difficult this training approach because is based on an overvalued realism and instrumental rationalism. Another reason is related to the lack of knowledge about the importance of corporeity by those involved in the training, such as the teacher as well as the management direction.