Education and re-enchantment of the world. Towards a poetization of educational language

Abstract

This paper presents a possible conception of the educational that aspires to promote ways of inhabiting the world from a perspective of care and responsibility to life. In this sense, the following reflections try to articulate a pedagogy that guarantees "the right to live and flourish" (Bugallo, 2015). We will follow the thinker Ana Patricia Noguera (2004), who proposes a "reenchantment of the world" that gives an account of the vitality of nature and that invites a poetization of the world, enabling new senses in our ways of inhabiting the earth (Noguera, 2004). In this direction, we propose the need to introduce in educational practices (or, in some cases, deepen) the developments that, for some years now, begin to be carried out in the field of "ecocriticism". Incorporating them in a pedagogical key represents a fundamental contribution in the construction of alternative views on the earth that encourage ways of relating critically and responsibly to it. By exerting an effect of de-familiarization and estrangement in the face of traditional conceptions of nature (and, also, of the human), ecocriticism invites us to glimpse new ways of conceiving ourselves within the framework of the existing. Finally, with the intention of illustrating the educational value of this ecocritical approach (and its potency in our proposal for the re-enchantment of the world), we will analyze the film El botón de Nácar, by the renowned Chilean filmmaker Patricio Guzmán.