Education and knowledge: The Tower of Babel, the kaleidoscope, the young people and the newness

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  • Renata Sieiro Fernandes Centro Universitário Salesiano - Unisal
  • Margareth Brandini Park Centro de Memória, Unicamp

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https://doi.org/10.14244/19827199158

Abstract


The aim of this paper is to discuss ways of building knowledge of reality as something that is fragmented, chaotic, in dis-order, taking as its starting point the image-metaphors of the Tower of Babel and the kaleidoscope. While establishing dialogues with literature and films, a discussion of the possible emergence of the new, the original, the innovative along with the traditional is presented. Those elements are brought by the revolutionary potential of young people or youth. Contact with the new carries the potential to break with what has been established, bringing the possibility of transformation through the use of imagination, creativity, creation, projection and realization - and young people can be the enablers or the founders of this new order.

Key words: young people, youth, knowledge building.
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Renata Sieiro Fernandes, Centro Universitário Salesiano - Unisal

Pesquisadora do Centro de Memória - Unicamp e docente do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Educação Sóciocomunitária, Unisal - Americana/SP

Margareth Brandini Park, Centro de Memória, Unicamp

Pedagoga e doutora em Educação pela Faculdade de Educação da Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp), Pesquisadora do Centro de Memória da Unicamp, Campinas, Brasil

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Published

2010-11-27

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FERNANDES, R. S.; PARK, M. B. Education and knowledge: The Tower of Babel, the kaleidoscope, the young people and the newness. Electronic Journal of Education, [S. l.], v. 4, n. 2, p. 126–143, 2010. DOI: 10.14244/19827199158. Disponível em: https://www.reveduc.ufscar.br/index.php/reveduc/article/view/158. Acesso em: 18 may. 2024.

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Vol. 4 No. 2 (2010)

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