ABSTRACT:
Inhabit cities is a process knotted by symbolic and cultural questions. This link must be understood and valued in cultural and historical terms, since they are a part of our education as urban subjects. In this sense, as affirmed by Andreas Huyssen (2002: 191) "...the city works as a kind of prism" that allows to "focus" multiple themes that aren't only linked to urbanism and architecture, but also cultural experiences and symbolic constructions that articulate the concrete act of living in cities. According to this author, we can affirm that the city is a text that can be read as a true "sign space". A house, a neighborhood, a building, the public spaces, the streets and sidewalks, the monuments are reservoirs of a time and memory that require multiple readings to transform themselves in integrative learning scenarios. The main goal of this paper is to question the city as an integral education territory and recognize the central questions that are attested when this becomes a public policy. For that we propose a path starting from knotting concepts, like integral education and urban pedagogy.
Keywords:
Cities; Integral education; Urban Pedagogy