De laço ou de nó? O lugar do professor para a construção de uma ética de proximidade e de responsabilidade

Abstract

The article's subject of study is the teacher's place in the development of an ethics of proximity and responsibility, aiming to understand whether the teacher's place in ethical practice occupies a place of a bond or a knot. Intertwined with the theoretical discussion on ethics, data obtained during self-training at one of the meetings of the Emotional Education Research Group (GRUPEE), at the Federal University of Fronteira Sul (UFFS), Campus Erechim, are presented. To this, meeting participants were invited to cite two pedagogical practices that could contribute to “teaching the coordinates of a new geography” based on “bonds of proximity and responsibility”. After analyzing the data, it is concluded that the role of the teacher has multiple facets in the construction of ethics and that, despite the contemporary “knots”, there is a hopeful perseverance in the educators/participants to always occupy the place of “bond”. Furthermore, it was noticed that sharing their impressions on this topic contributed to the group's own geographies being put into dialogue, enabling an experience of hospitality.