A ética como um princípio da justiça: uma abordagem transdisciplinar na escola

Abstract

Understanding Ethics as a principle of justice, in a transdisciplinary educational process, is the focus of this reflection. The educational experience is being implemented based on a methodology which has chosen Ethics as the core element in the development course of children in early childhood education. This procedure was defined by an interactive dynamic that considered subjectivity, intersubjectivity and sociability — dimensions that configure Ethics as a transversal dynamism of easy accessibility once the child’s spontaneity is taken into account. Therefore, the aim is to situate Ethics as a principle of social justice, seeking to understand it as a transdisciplinary dynamism in an early childhood educational project. The assumption for achieving this aim is based on the premise that in order to educate for the benefit of social justice an ethical virtue that enables the awareness of human dignity and social transformation is required. It was concluded, therefore, that early childhood education is a favorable environment for incorporating Ethics in the development of the child’s potentialities, aiming to form a generation of young people and adults capable of promoting responsibilities for the common good whilst nurturing a society that is spiritually healthy and materially sustainable.