Ética no Ensino Fundamental: contribuições para a formação cidadã

Abstract

Ethical issues are straightly bonded to actions concerning to the conception of a reflective citizen. Although it is not an easy task, one that aims to practice ethics with children in primary school seems to be necessary. In the beginning of the 21st century, Ethics faces touchy issues in which famous institutions common wellness proposals are doubted and people considered ethical become a mean of anti-ethical conflicts. Political, business, institutional and social events cause astonishment e goes against ethic issues. The problem considered in this task is in variance with one of these institutions, in order to reconsidering its actions by doing an analysis of how this process started e in which situation it is now and in the occasion it was asked How does ethics contribute to the professional and citizen development in primary schools? . Dealing with the task about ethics in primary school is justified in understanding that the man s development lays on the first age and there is not a preparation of the future. What is observed is that there is a preparation of the present, for the habits strongly mark the human behavior. We aim to demonstrate that the discussions and reflections about ethics in primary school are a crying need for building a base structure in citizen formation and in the future education praxis. This task deals with the hypothesis of bringing in education programs in Brazil without an ethics project. Another hypothesis derives from philosophy in order to observe if it offers important contributions to understand the ethical subject process dynamic and if it is possible to establish education references which consider the complete human development and its professional and social abilities. This paper is split in three distinct and bonded chapters. The first one intends to identify the ethics absence and/or its positive evidences in a variety of documents and periods of time within a historical revision. The second chapter intends to offer an analysis about the contribution of some philosophers to the man and society development conception, as well as the interest of how to use those examples for a better society. The third chapter intends to show strategically how the education mediation must occur mainly in primary school and which means and actions must be taken in order to allow the appropriate development of citizens and professionals.