Interfaces between education and communication: points of intersection

Abstract

This study addresses the interfaces between education and communication, taking both fields as spaces under construction, of interdisciplinary character, potential locus of meaning production and the intersection of knowledge. Situated in a multicultural society, enhanced by the technological apparatus, the education-communication interface gives rise to different ways of seeing, feeling, hearing, participating, fostering communicative plots that broaden the spaces and times of learning. The bibliographic study is anchored by authors such as Bakhtin (2009; 2011), Paulo Freire (1977) and Martín-Barbero (2014), among others. In its development, it brings together the purpose of problematizing possible scenarios in which the education-communication interface is realized, namely: Literacy for Media, Educommunication, Media in Education and Radio at School. The results point to the centrality of the media in people's lives, together with the school and other socialization agents, in the process of constitution of consciousness. It is concluded that in the modes of production and appropriation of media messages, there are also educational processes, although distinct in nature from school modes. It is about recognizing the media and the school as mediation spaces between information consumers and knowledge producers, where subjects produce meanings, give intelligibility to themselves and to the cultural universe in which they are immersed.