Process Criticism and Education: Possible dialogues

Abstract

The aim of the article is to discuss the possible relationships between process criticism and education. Our starting point is the presentation of this critical approach and some relevant aspects of the concept of creation as a network – Musso, 2004 –, based on semiotics – Charles S. Peirce, 1994 –, to approach some specificities of educational processes, which involve interactions between students, teachers and schools. Some results of the research on the creation process in group or team will be presented, in dialogue with Domenico De Masi (2005, 2007), Steven Johnson (2011) and Edgar Morin (2002, 2010), emphasizing the lack of bibliography in this area. Then the relationship between teachers and students will be discussed, highlighting the relevance of monitoring and awareness of processes and their sensitive effects, amid the possibility of errors and the need for research. And finally, in the context of the relationship between teachers and school, some relevant aspects of the group creation processes will be discussed, such as the context of production, construction of common projects, communication of these projects and subjective effects in the context of the meetings.

Keywords

• process criticism
• educational process
• group creation process