A TRÍADE “CABEÇA, CORAÇÃO E MÃOS” E A PROPOSTA DE UMA EDUCAÇÃO INTEGRAL EM PESTALOZZI

Abstract

Talking about education implies understanding the human being's formation process as a multidimensional being and in its entirety: corporal/physical, intellectual/cognitive, affective/emotional, social/cultural. This integral formation or the full development of the human personality is reinforced nowadays by important declarations and institutions of international level such as UNESCO, UNICEF and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It turns out that the idea of ​​thinking about an integral education of human beings and the full development of their potential is not new and in the Enlightenment period, the swiss philosopher and pedagogue Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi was already thinking about education from this perspective. Pestalozzi, as we will see in this article, conceived a global pedagogy centered on the development of all the students' faculties: physical, intellectual, moral, affective. Thus, this article, which adopts bibliographical research as a methodology, presents a study on the work of Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, with emphasis on the idea of ​​an education aimed at the full development of human capacities. For this, we will make some considerations about Pestalozzi's experiences as an educator, some considerations about the influence of the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, especially from the concept of human nature since, for Pestalozzi, the child is conceived as a developing organism that reveals itself from the union between head, heart and hands and, thus, we will be able to approach the aspects that are related to the proposal of an integral education that will be the last topic approached and the objective of this article.