O processo educacional na mística das tendas e caminhos/The education process in the mystic of the tents and ways

• Published in: Horizonte (Belo Horizonte, Brazil) Vol. 10; no. 27; p. 684
• Main Authors: Síveres, Luiz, de Menezes, Ana Luisa Teixeira
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: Portuguese
• Published: Belo Horizonte Pontificia Universidade Catolica de Minas Gera, Programa de Posgraduacao em Ciencias da Religiao 01-07-2012
• Subjects: Education; Mysticism; Pedagogy
• ISSN: 1679-9615; 2175-5841

The reality of the contemporary world is marked, in great part, by the fragility of personal options, by the speed of technological connections and by the superficiality of social relations. In this context there is education, which mediated by a diversity of pedagogic processes, looks to contribute to the personal formation and social transformation of the individual. In this educational process, the mystic as a qualified energy, can deepen the peculiarities that touch a life and the social experiences through which one passes. Here, we use as a support the tents and paths metaphor. The tents can be comprehended as privileged spaces in which to experience the membership qualified, the relational presence and the cooperative participation, and the paths are movements through which one may contemplate reality, wandering with the company of others and finding a path to the horizon. Based on this dialogic relationship, education is perceived as a tool by which to follow the ways in which our bodies move around and perform new actions in the direction of the most significant educational projects, as well as discovering through this education that we are able to welcome, in the tents, the gentleness and the energy, the interiority and the appearance, the peculiarity and the diversity. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]