A Pedagogia Social em Pestalozzi: teoria e prática pedagógicas

Abstract

The dissertation introduces the Social Pedagogy in Pestalozzi, his theory and pedagogical practice. In order to purpose, the research presents a hermeneutic analysis of the Social Pedagogy concept , from the point of view of pestalozzian pedagogy. For the research on Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, we sought for theoretical sources in basic works of the author and his commentators. The analysis traces the complexity of Social Pedagogy, looking at its historical, political, economical, educational and social context as well as the importance of Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi in the genesis of social education process. Several works of expert authors helped to show the panorama and the different views on definition of Social Pedagogy. The research’s background is sustained in theoretical study and holds up on hermeneutical philosophic methodology for data interpretations. The dissertation is divided into four chapters, organized as follows: in the first chapter, the Lineation Research, which shows the trajectory of the researcher, historical preceeding of investigation and the used methodology. The second introduces Pestalozzi’s theory as a forerunner practice of Social Pedagogy, showing the world he lived in, his pedagogical method, the theoretical foundations that joined his filiation and the implications, in secularization context, for Social Pedagogy. In the third chapter, Pestalozzi’s legacy with a positive ascendance in development of social pedagogy with his intuitive method and his triad proposed to be achieved by the formation (head, heart and hands) is described. In order to characterize such influence, we tell the history of education in the eighteenth century, we show pestalozzian social education concept and demarcate the birth of Social Pedagogy as theory and practice. Finally, we bring the final words about research: social work, social education, and social pedagogy are pestalozzians’ effect of actions to unite education and work, with the purpose of subjects better life conditions in the society. Among other results, it is possible to highlight that Social Pedagogy is looking for your particular field of work and we can realize that Pestalozzi’s legacy can be a strong ally of formal education of Federal Government’s Programa Mais Educação deployed in 2008, in Brazil, where pestalozzian model education clearly appears as a proposal to complement a comprehensive education.