Sobre la educación literaria

Abstract

The CRAI documents on literary education aim to raise a discussion about the need for training focused on reading and writing literary texts. The CRAI documents on literary education will attempt to raise questions such as the following, but also to approach possible answers, that is, didactics that validate literary studies as rigorous: Why remove these stories, these songs, these dialogues from our habits when we grow up? Why think that they are not scientific? Is there not something more scientific than scrutinizing the human condition with the tools of the beautiful word, that is, of rhetoric, which is the soul of poetry? Does not the construction of the worlds we read in stories, poems, novels, chronicles, essays and plays require rigor, curiosity and imagination? Are not imagination, curiosity and rigor essential characteristics of logos and science? Is it because the University forgot to incorporate poetry, stories, dramas and aesthetic reflections into its curriculum that today's professionals place at the center of their actions the facile and dehumanized behavior with those they owe themselves to?