AESTHETIC EDUCATION AND EDUCATION OF THE SENSES IN PHYSICAL EDUCATION CLASSES:
POSSIBILITIES FOR A CRITICAL FORMATION
Aesthetic education; Marxist aesthetics; education of the senses; physical education; critical education.
The present dissertation presents possibilities for applying aesthetic education and the education of the senses as resources for the development of omnilateral training and critical awareness. In Marx, the concept of omnilaterality appears in the Paris manuscripts as an opposition to the unilaterality imposed by the capitalist production model on human development. The term derives from the German adjective allseitig and can be translated as “polymorphic”, “universal”, “complete”, “general”, it can also be associated with the word allseits which means from all sides, fully. Aesthetics, from a Marxist perspective, is presented as the fundamental category for human development and, therefore, for sensitivity, critical sense and understanding of reality. In this sense, we seek here to correlate the development of artistic sensitivity with the training process for human emancipation. Physical education classes – which have their specificity anchored in body culture – can be an important stimulus to sensitive, critical, humanistic and socially oriented human formation for the construction of a just and egalitarian society, since they have the possibility of contributing to an education of the human senses.