ONEIRIC CHILDHOOD, WORLD RE-ENCHANTMENT AND CHILD EDUCATION
Oneiric childhood; Child education; Poetic imagination; worls re-enchantment; imaginative education.
This thesis is based on theoretical approaches attuned to a critique of the radicalization of the process of rationalization carried out by Western Modernity, as postulated by Max Weber. This process has been fragmenting the human in so far as it privileges the dimension of the Logos to the detriment of Mythos, reason rather than imagination, especially a reason tamed by modern science, imposing prosaic and conceptual thinking on imagery, it is linked to the domain of poetic imagery. The objective of this study was to investigate how (and to what extent) experiences of the oneiric childhood experience (Gaston Bachelard 's notion) by children from Early Childhood Education in two schools in. re-enchantment of the world for children and other actors in the educational process, including the researcher himself. For that, an ethnographic research was carried out in the Freinet and Dona Liquinha Alves schools, which was articulated to Edgar Morin's reflections on complex thinking and the need to reconnect knowledgs in education, and Maria da Conceicão Almeida in relation to a perspective that takes into account the wholeness of the anthropos. In addition, we have worked on Jean-Jacques Wunenburger's problematics about the imaginative education implicit in Gaston Bachelard's philosophy. For the reading of the poetic images referred to the oneiric childhood, the research had as reference the two avenues of bachelardian aesthetic philosophy, the phenomenology of the imagination and the archetypal imagination of the material elements. The investigated school experiences demonstrated the possibility of re-enchantment of the world of the studied subjects to the extent that reason and imagination are articulated in a balanced way in the educative practice of those involved in the process.