A Pedagogy of Attention: Simone Weil and the Trans-formative Approach of the Rondine Method

Abstract

This article examines the role of attention in education according to the thought of the French philosopher Simone Weil (1909-1943) and the trans-formative approach of the Rondine Method. For Weil, education should be focused on the formation of attention, which seeks to arouse in students a love for truth and justice. For the author, this notion includes different levels such as intellectual, moral, spiritual and social. On the other hand, attention, from a Weilian perspective, has a fundamental role in the trans-formative approach to conflict, since it is constituted as the right temporal and spatial distance in which the I and the You can become protagonists of the We, attuning their experiences in a vital rhythm within the habitat of trust.