Teaching as a poetic act: presentation

Abstract

What can be said about the formation of new generations under current conditions? What can be proposed as a guiding principle for teaching, in a country where the word is imprisoned in the single sense that narrows the limits of the worlds it names and produces? Would the literary experience, as a singular experience of the subject with the word, in the words of Blanchot (2005), have something to indicate us about the production of crevices in a world that seems to work towards a closure on itself? It is in an attempt to extend the scope of these questions and to outline ways to address them that this dossier is organized, combining seven articles: five by Brazilian researchers – UFMG, UFRGS, UFBA, UFAC, UNESP, UFJF – and two by foreign researchers – Institute of Education of the University of Lisbon, Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon and the Latin American Faculty of Social Sciences (FLACSO).