EDUCATION, TEACHING AND TEACHING PRACTICE: ANALYSES AND VIEWPOINTS

Abstract

This text aims to analyze the teaching profession in its various educational perspectives. The motivation to write this article sprang from the need to understand how education, teaching and teaching practices can be critically involved in generating whole citizens, i.e., autonomous individuals that can think for themselves. The aim is to find an educational practice of possibility, which signals an education that enables a more righteous and equitable world, one that does not succumb to the constraints of massification. Nowadays we often notice the weakening of human bonds within the educational process, especially regarding the relationship between teaching practices and education. Thus, we intend to distinguish education from teaching, based on the pedagogical theory and history of education. We seek to reiterate the importance of teacher training and teachers’ role, in order to induce a critical, liberating and interchanging type of education.