Symbolic mediations in pedagogical activity

• Autor(a) principal: Bernardes, Maria Eliza Mattosinho
• Data de Publicação: 2009
• Outros Autores: Moura, Manoel Oriosvaldo de
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Educação e Pesquisa
• Texto Completo: https://www.revistas.usp.br/ep/article/view/28204
• topic: Symbolic mediation; Empirical and theoretical thinking; Cultural-historical psychology; Mediação simbólica; Pensamento empírico e teórico; Psicologia histórico-cultural

This research presents an analysis of a didactic investigation of the first series of Fundamental Education that tries to identify the essence of actions and operations in the activity of teaching. From the mediations instituted in the teaching and learning relationship, these actions and operations create conditions conducive to the development of theoretical thinking among students and educators. The object of this study is to investigate the different kinds of symbolic mediation in the pedagogical activity. They create the conditions for the development of thinking as one of the superior psychological processes of the human genre to be stimulated in the school context. The method of investigation is based on the dialectical historical materialism, on cultural-historical psychology, and on activity theory as instruments of analysis of the constitution of human individuality. On the empirical side, a comparative study is carried out between two distinct moments of the didactic investigation, taking into account the logic that underlies the organization of teaching. This brings changes in the quality of the appropriation of concepts, expressed in the manifestations of thought in the forms of judgment, concept and deduction. The results identify as symbolic mediations the relations of the subjects with the historicized object of study, and the collective and cooperative actions and operations of the subjects in the cognitive, volitional, and affective aspects. In conclusion, the text asserts that these mediations only become effective after the appropriation of theoretical-scientific knowledge by the educators, since the latter promote the creation of conditions and circumstances that make it possible to establish an integrated system, instituting social practices into the school context that help to overcome the alienating conditions inherent to the current school system and to contemporary society.