HERO OR VILLAIN? THE ROLE OF THE PHYSICAL EDUCATION TEACHER FACE TO THE CULTURAL INDUSTRY

Abstract

One of the most evident aspects in the contemporary world is the central place occupied by the technological ways of production and reproduction of information. They take an always larger space in our lives, catalyzing our emotions and our attitudes facing the world and showing their gloomier side when collaborating with the maintenance of the status quo. We observed the influence of the Cultural Industry in several ambits, as well as in the school. Than we discussed the teacher's role taking the media in account: is he a hero or a villain? The discussion had as a starting point the fact that the teacher is inserted in that society, feeling and thinking according its concepts, often commercial, unjust and prejudicious. The study goes then, in the direction of a valorization of the teacher's education in humanities, starting from a reflection on himself and, so, transporting it into his pedagogic practice.