Education under the light of Maturana’s thought

Abstract

This article´s proposition reflects on Maturana’s contributions in the fields of education, taking it as a theoretical reference to the systemic approach. This approach presents breaks with the traditional paradigm of the science showing another world conception. We are driven to a more holistic education, concerned about subject in its totality; individual and context thoughts like a set of relations, discarding any track of fragmentation and simplistic explanations.For so, it is possible to be said the systemic thought contributes to another vision on the subjects in the study of education.Humberto Maturana is seen as an author who starting from biology, provokes a break with the modern thought, enters into the world of culture and announces the systemic thought, like epistemological basis in the study of human being proposing an eco-systemic conception of reality. This way, Maturana’s idea about education makes us understand that educate is to coexist in a space of reciprocal acceptance, where there is self-respect and to the other, as authentic other and not merely to learn academic contents, visualizing a new way to be done.