Pelo caminho do amar: Imaginando outros mundos na Educação Infantil a partir de Humberto Maturana e Ximena Dávila ; The path of love: thinking other ways for the education of children based on the ideas of Humberto Maturana and Ximena Dávila. ; Por el camino del amar: Imaginando otros mundos en la Educación Infantil a partir de Humberto Maturana y Ximena Dávila

The PhD thesis herein is the result of the Post-Graduation Educational Program on Teaching, Knowledge and Professional Development of the Universidade Federal de Santa María (PPGE/UFSM). I base this thesis on the assumption that we are biological – cultural beings, meaning that nothing happens outside our biology although mediated by culture during the course of our lives. We experience, learn and imagine new worlds while living and sharing our life with others. This is an examination and an invitation to walk together, imagining a new world in the Path of Love for the Education of Children. My objective was to research the propositions of Humberto Maturana and Ximena Dávila in view of the future training of teachers based on the feeling of love as a transforming epistemologic principle. The methodology I used is original and unprecedented, was based on the prospects of the cultural biology and was organized into four stages: 1) to know / to obserb 2) to ponder 3) Motion / Action 4) Recursive pondering. The thesis herein is divided as a menu in a restaurant: First course; main course; dessert and coffee. The first course is meant to boost the appetite, open up the senses and sharpen the palate for the main course. The main course are the theoretical references that were used as a platform for the development of the Thesis / Degustation herein. The dessert in this banquet was developed as a sweet trait that must be chewed slowly, because it comprises the methodology. And the coffee time is the moment for the final reflections. I made this analogy because I believe that in cooking, as in the process of educating, it is necessary the training, care and love. The idea behind all this is that the reader can taste slowly every word, every idea, thinking of new possibilities. In my degustations / readings I concluded that all we have in our life is the present moment, that changes constantly while we are living it. To be alive is something that happens as a matter of constant flowing so it can and must be tasted with ...