Competências na formação docente: um olhar hermenêutico

Abstract

The thesis entitled "Competence at the teacher s education: an Hermeneutic perspective" enlists in the Graduate Program in Education of the Education Center at the Federal University of Santa Maria and its research object the hermeneutic and critical approach of the Pedagogy of Competences, implemented in Brazilian education in the curricular reform recent. The research proposes to investigate the possibilities and limits of Pedagogy of competences, while theoretical basis for teacher training and for education. The thesis makes use of an interpretation of the concept of communicative competence, developed by the German philosopher Jürgen Habermas, using it as a counterpoint to the notion of current pedagogical discourse competence, seeking to contribute to the discussion from a philosophical perspective on training. Thereby, we intend to offer ways to understand the limits of a pedagogical conception of competence subject to the dictates of instrumental reason. To this end, it is proposed the assumption of rationality based on understanding, based on Dialogic capacity intersubjective and subjects communication, attentive to the correct criteria argument and understanding in place of mere adequacy between means and ends, epistemic array of instrumental reason. The research methodology meets the theoretical assumptions of qualitative research of bibliographic type, using the interpretive techniques of hermeneutics of reconstructive Habermas. It is proposed, as a matter of general search, analyses the philosophical foundations of pedagogy of competences, peering into its origins and boundaries in order to meet the different possibilities of development of the educational experience that emerges when the assumption of the concept of communicative competence. So, in that sense the communicative competence contributes to the resizing of the horizon of work set by the Pedagogy of competences? It is possible to rethink the practical knowledge and customary based on instrumental rationality, which permeate this proposal, aiming at the expansion of its universe of interlocution with the inclusion of new skills? Therefore, search on the theory of communicative action by Habermas, the inspiration to give an account of the philosophical reflections that are necessary and, in hermeneutics, the reconstructive interpretive contribution to the critical analysis of the educational paradigm of the competences.