SCHOOL KNOWLEDGE, DAY-BY-DAY KNOWLEDGE AND PEDAGOGICAL PRACTICES

This paper aims at discussing the relationship between school and day-by-day knowledge. It intends to debate about some issues, about some doubts, arguing some consolidated "truths" within pedagogic practices, one of them being the use of technologies in school. Technical and ethical application of knowledge is discussed, concluding the possible dialogue between "the school world" and the "out-of-school world", which is mediated by technology. In this dialogue, technical know-how is indispensable, but its use is assessed by the ethical know-how. Undoubtedly, the dialogue between school knowledge and day-by-day knowledge is a permanent challenge to old and new pedagogic practices, but we believe if this challenge has the ethical application of knowledge as an horizon (north or south), it will be an unquestionably fertile dialogue.