Pedagogy as a Science Field: an analysis based on Dermeval Saviani's thought

• Autor(a) principal: Celestino, Rafaela Soares
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Eletrônica Pesquiseduca
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.unisantos.br/pesquiseduca/article/view/1181
• topic: Ciência. Epistemologia. Escola. Intelectuais. Intencionalidade.; Pedagogia como Ciência. Pedagogia.; Science. Epistemology. School. Intellectuals. Intentionality.

In this paper, we investigated pedagogy as a science field, as it is advocated by Dermeval Saviani. It is widely recognized that, in Brazil, it is not usual to consider that pedagogy is a science. Furthermore, there is no consensus on which scientific basis the area is constituted. On the other hand, those who deny its scientificity claim that education is the object of other sciences. Considering this, we refer to a text by Dermeval Saviani entitled Pedagogia e ciência(s) da educação (2008) in order to demonstrate that pedagogy is the field of scientific investigation on the socialization and intentional didactic processes of knowledge, since dealing pedagogically with contents and learners is specific to this area. Hence, we cannot endorse teaching as the aspect that typifies or hegemonizes pedagogy. Finally, we emphasize that the awareness of an intentional and systematic development of school knowledge for human promotion legitimizes pedagogy as a relatively autonomous science. Keywords: Science. Epistemology. School. Intellectuals. Intentionality.