A construção de uma nova cultura do conhecimento: a experiência do Centro Popular de Cultura e Desenvolvimento

• Ano de defesa: 2015
• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Gabriela Marques Mendes da
• Orientador(a): Limena, Maria Margarida Cavalcanti
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Estudos Pós-Graduados em Ciências Sociais
• Departamento: Ciências Sociais
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: Complexidade; Aprendizagem; Conhecimento; Transformação; Desenvolvimento
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Complexity; Learning; Knowledge; Transformation; Development
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS
• Link de acesso: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/3671

The crisis of human civilization is directly associated to the structure of its thought process, especially in Western societies, because this is based on a paradigm of logic that simplifies, reduces and fragments people's understanding of reality and the world around them. The current educational practice, which is carried out and concentrated in schools, is inadequate to the task of developing citizens who can learn to deal with the complexity of the modern world and its challenges. Complex thinking, then, as proposed by Edgar Morin, is one possible approach to enable the construction of a new culture of knowledge, which can contribute to a worldview in which human beings reposition their thinking in favor of life, by becoming conscious of their situation in the context of the planet they inhabit, and by recognizing their identity and their earthly community. When applied to educational practice, the concept of complexity makes it possible to reconnect bodies of knowledge that enable the recognition of global problems and that create awareness of the political, social and ethical needs that are necessary for a fundamental civilizing posture: in solidarity with, and responsible for, emerging transformations. This study will analyze the activities of the Popular Center for Culture and Development, located in the city of Araçuaí in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil, as an alternative method of learning, based on the application of the concept of complexity in its educational practices and organization, and which has resulted in significant and positive transformations in the communities where it has been adopted, and which is now recognized as an important reference in education and in sustainable community development. It is a space in which the individual's experience is broadened, by the continuous and motivating practice of social transformation and the realization of a situation that is based on respect for life, both in the present and in the future. The individual, increasingly aware of his/her own humanity, is nourished, simultaneously and in a complementary manner, by utopia and reality on the path to building a planetary ethic