Reflections in a Field of Borders: Education and Communication in Dialogue

Abstract

The media represents, in contemporary societies, not only a source of information, but it’s a mediator by which man and society have maintained high relations, understanding and meaning the world that surrounds them. Although they don’t have the monopoly of information, they live and coexist with other educational instances and, along with school, they compose a set of means with which people give intelligibility to their context. In this article, that has theoretical bases and a bibliographic character, we intend to show elements that are essential to think about the multiple and complex relations between education and media. Therefore, it’s important to discuss that media, as well as the institutionalized pedagogical practices (school), in its way, can be understood through verbal interactions, its pedagogical aspect and the production of meanings that happen in it. With the mediation of school and media, the world we know is translated and gets a meaning. So, in several possible situations, in media or school spaces, the living dialogue enables the constitution of an individuality that is permanently revisited, infinitely revised and critically reflected.