Formation and the question of tact. Considerations from aesthetics for education

Abstract

This article develops the topic of the formation of tact. This topic, which from the sciences of the spirit is called bildung or formation, considers aesthetics in the formation of life as a principal question. It is proposed that we contemplate those actions or reflections that help to sensitize and build spaces for humanization among men. Today, in the pedagogical context, the same demands of tact are required for both teacher formation in higher education and for secondary students. It is about thinking of pedagogical processes from the perspective of aesthetics. In order to develop this topic, we have approached the reading from two authors: Hans-Georg Gadamer and John Dewey, and from a pragmatic hermeneutic reading, we have placed aesthetic formation as a central element in the conversation. In this way, the importance of tact relates closely with the importance of aesthetics in professional teacher formation, as in the very exercise of those teachers, because building the sensus communis is the challenge of a teacher of knowing, that from tact, an opportunity is opened to find an experience that forms and projects within the conversation.