Bioethics, Vulnerability and Finitude: Echoes of Existential Pedagogy

Authors

  • Richard Elvis Cesin Espin, PhD Unidad Educativa Anexa “Pedro Arnal”

Keywords:

Bioethics, Social Sciences, Education, Vulnerability

Abstract

Bioethics, vulnerability and finiteness are currently subjecting that maintain forced links, since human beings realize that they are as deadly as Socrates. However, Education in general has preferred to speak of the first two and ignore the third. Nobody wants to know about finiteness, personal disappearance or what it means for those who remain on Earth. Hence, we consider pertinent for current Pedagogy the consideration of these three themes that constitute a kind of echo of what philosophy and existentialist pedagogy have been represented at different times by authors such as Heidegger, Husserl, Sartre, Nietzsche, and more recently by Bárcenas, Larrosa and Mélich. Proposing these issues at the level of school and high school education requires a renovating, current vision, free from the prejudices that have accompanied part of children's didactics, in which it is thought that the child should not be disturbed by such disturbing issues as that of death. Far from this vision, we consider that the teacher can adopt strategies or procedures according to the ages of his pupils in order to introduce them to the issues of human vulnerability and the effective naturalness of finitude as a kind of counterpart of life. We try to make an article of a documentary nature and awaken the motivation of counselors and teachers regarding this topic.

Author Biography

Richard Elvis Cesin Espin, PhD, Unidad Educativa Anexa “Pedro Arnal”

TSU in Computer Science, Bachelor of Comprehensive Education, Bachelor of Computer Science Administration, Specialist in Planning and Evaluation of Education, Doctor of Education Sciences, Teacher at the “Pedro Arnal” Educational Unit, Cumaná, Sucre state.

Published

2020-12-21

How to Cite

Cesin Espin , R. E. . (2020). Bioethics, Vulnerability and Finitude: Echoes of Existential Pedagogy. Metropolis | Global University Studies Journal, 1(2), 193-205. Retrieved from https://metropolis.metrouni.us/index.php/metropolis/article/view/36