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The pedagogical parrhesia of Foucault and the educational ethos as psicagogia

This paper addresses the current mapping of the presence of Foucault among educators, amid the problems of reception and criticism. This is on the assumption that, to address the issue of care of the self, Foucault produced innovative insights that have close relations with ethical and political issues which are vital within the tradition of Bildung, affecting therefore the representation we have of pedagogy and of its categories, by differentiating between pedagogy and psicagogia. The argumentative thread of the article articulates two analytical movements. Initially, we present a brief reconstruction of the reception of Foucault's thought in the brazilian educational field. Then, we interpret his/its analysis of psicagogia as a pedagogical gesture from which new figures emerge for the problematization of education.

care of the self; Michel Foucault; psicagogia


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