Em torno do pensamento pós-formal

 

HELENA MARCHAND (*)

 

RESUMO

Passados 30 anos sobre as mais importantes teorizações do pensamento pós-formal ainda subsistem diversas questões quanto à natureza desse pensamento. O presente artigo tem por objectivos: (1) descrever sucintamente o que se entende por pensamento pós-formal e (2) analisar algumas questões que se colocam em torno da caracterização deste nível de pensamento.

Palavras-chave: Pensamento pós-formal, o modelo dialéctico, o modelo relativista, 5º estádio de desenvolvimento.

 

 

ABSTRACT

Thirty years after the emergence of the most important theories about post-formal thought, there still remain various questions about the nature of such thought. This article will seek, first, to succinctly describe what is understood by the term post-formal thought, and, second, to analyze some questions that are raised about the nature of this level of thought.

Key words: Post-formal thought, the dialectical model, the relativistic model, a fifth stage of development.

 

 

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(*) Faculdade de Psicologia e de Ciências da Educação da Universidade de Lisboa.