BARBIER Jean-Marie. “The Education: neither Prometheus nor Sisyphus, an Intervention”. In Trabalho & Educação, Belo Horizonte, v. 21, n° 2, pp.63-72, mai./ago. 2012.

The objective of this research is to define educational action as interventions of subjects on the activities of other people in which individual and collective historicities intersect, fomenting developments on both sides. This definition understands how specificity of educational action the fact be intentional in its conception and organization in view of changes expected in terms of routine of activity with subsequent appreciation. This conception is complemented by differentiating between “culture of teaching”, in which there is an organization of educational space according to a logic of knowledge communication and skills, “training culture”, when it follows a logical organization of production of (new) skills and attitudes, and finally “culture of professionalization” when the goal is to structure activities with a view to transforming competences. The author concludes the article by presenting comparative table of the characteristics of these three “cultures”, calling attention to the fact that they can integrate different times of the same educational activity.

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