Educação e moralidade : autoridade e sedução na obra Emílio ou da Educação

Abstract

This Master thesis presents a historical-pedagogical report through a philosophical hermeneutics. The focus is teacher and student?s relationship considering strategies of authority and seduction/attraction/magnetism constructed through master/mentor and disciple up to childhood. After a incursion in the main thoughts of 17th and 18th centuries, intrinsically linked to children education, we seek for the theoretical groundings intentioning to promote the dialogue evidenced by the paradigms fixed in pedagogy?s history and taking in account the subject education or children?s formation. The research takes as its main attention the book Emile or on Education, which deals with the individual?s formation since his birth until the adult age outlining teacher?s role in building knowledge with his student. The dimensions linked to the set of qualities and characteristics, with principal appointments in authority and seduction/attraction/magnetism agreed with in the relationship between teacher and student were surveyed in Emile with the purpose of demonstrating that the treatment Rousseau propose to his disciple is anchored in principles, such as cordiality, interest, enchantment, attraction, persuasion, authority and ascendancy. Taking in account that the concepts authority and seduction are not understood by Rousseau as they are in our days, we infere that such a contextualization leads us to perceive how near they are of endearment and confidence, love and security, and moral credibility. Emile?s preceptor is a hearer, an advisor, a creditworthy person and, first and last, someone who has in his hands, with directivity, the education project of his pupil.