Dermeval Saviani in “History of Pedagogical Ideas in Brazil” and the Use of the Abductive Method: A Contribution to the Socialization of Knowledge

Abstract

The present study sought to understand the point of common dialogue between the work of Demerval Saviani, entitled "History of pedagogical ideas in Brazil" and the work of Umberto Eco and Sebeok, TA, entitled "The sign of three". The general objective was to identify the manifestation of related points, that is, those of convergence between the referred works and their aspects of influence in the theoreticalmethodological choices adopted by Saviani. We know that the author uses the dialecticalhistorical method, however, we weave a relationship between this method and the abductive method, highlighting comments on the methodological rigor applied to his scientific research in the area of History of Education and the development of critical reasoning, contributing to the socialization of knowledge. The social relevance of this work lies in the fact that it asserts greater consistency and coherence in the educational action developed by Saviani, demarcating his methodology, built from different theoretical inspirations for understanding the evolution of Brazilian pedagogical thinking, contributing greatly to the development of the work of teachers, leaders and education systems in this country. To carry out this work, a bibliographical research was used based on the authors and works mentioned above. It was concluded that the abductive reasoning developed by Peirce, and reported by Eco, is inferred in the logic of what could be, going to meet new possibilities, which we can identify in Saviani when his challenge to gather diverse and countless sources in order to overcome traditional methodological difficulties. This way, the socialization of knowledge proposed by Saviani materializes when he makes available to academic research the possibility of extracting his criticisms through the abductive method, proposing to leave the results of his studies to teachers and students of Brazilian schools in general, also emphasizing the need to reach out to public education in order to improve it.