Uma visão crítica sobre as relações entre a filosofia da educação e as ciências da educação

Abstract

The text presents some arguments on the relationship among philosophy,pedagogy and the sciences of education aiming to point out aspects concerning philosophy of education. Philosophy, in its own, can be conceived as a kind of reflection which thinks and tries to understand features of the pedagogical processes and, at the same time, is itself a pedagogical activity. The article begins questioning a certain
conception of philosophy that frequently underlies the relationship between philosophy and pedagogy: that is, a conception that thinks philosophy as a more fundamental knowledge about educational problems. The article vindicate that if philosophy can strongly contribute to understand educational problems, of course never giving up it’s critical apprehension of reality, it has a lot to learn with the so called “sciences of education”, which are better prepared to investigate the “sensible contour”, or practical aspects of the knowledge process of learning/ transmitting, beyond “formal instruction” and/or transmitting/construction of “erudite knowledge” (savoir savant).