Pedagogy and Social Sciences: the brazilian debate in three stages

Abstract

The aim of this work is to analyze the debate about the status of Pedagogy as an area of knowledge, by focusing on the various propositions of defi nition of the field introduced by Brazilian authors in the last decades. First, we examine the notion of education as scientifi c art as introduced by Anísio Teixeira in the 1950s, in the scope of the global project of the Brazilian Center for Educational Researches; second, we analyze the advance of the sciences of education from the decline of the specifi cally pedagogical as a consequence of the penetration of the Critical Theory in the Brazilian educational field, and third, the attempt of redefining the pedagogical fi eld and delimiting its object from the 1990s on.