Education and aesthetics of existence: practice of freedom and creating new possibilities of life

Author(s)

Jose Luiz Pastre

• Document type: Doctoral Thesis
• Press: Campinas, SP.
• Institution: Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Faculdade de Educação
• Defense date: 2014-02-24

Examining board members

Áurea Maria Guimarães; Katia Maria Kasper; Cintia Vieira da Silva; Silvio Donizetti de Oliveira Gallo; Wencesláo Machado de Oliveira Junior

• Advisor: Áurea Maria Guimarães

Abstract

The object of my research is to think about education from the idea of an aesthetic of existence. This is an aesthetic approach and micropolitics of education. For the development of this approach, besides the very notion of aesthetics of existence, I use some concepts in the works of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari as my main search intercessors. For these authors a micropolitical analysis always lies at the crossroads between different modes of apprehension of a problem. In this sense , the field of research is situated at the crossroads of several sources, which use various orders of materials , such as official documents , historical experiences of educational practices, aesthetic analyzes (art theory), own experiences and other educators, various research approaches in education, film clips, etc. By using this material, my aim is to establish some traits, or pose some notes, which we may think about education from the idea of an aesthetics of existence. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 10/17195-0 - Education and esthetics of existence
• Grantee: José Luiz Pastre
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate