The concept of formation and the dynamic of its meaning in the course of history

Abstract

This article aims to present the meaning attributed to the concept of formation over time, in the course of history. In researching formation, we are inevitably faced with the simplicity of a subject with which we deal daily in our lives, as well as with the complex nature derived from the unique characteristics that humanity, in the course of its trajectory, helped to constitute, in its different spaces and times, regarding this concept. From this movement comes the need to take a careful look at the nuances that are forming the idea of formation, especially in the field of education. This is a qualitative study, which has the methodological contribution to the bibliographic research. For composition of its theoretical framework we instrumentalize ourselves with the reading of: Rousseau, Kant, Gadamer, Jaeger and Hermann. In this way, it presents as a result a historical rescue of the western thought, evidencing the meaning of what the Greeks called paideia, the Latins, humanitas, the Germans, bildung and that today we call formation.