The mysterious journey of learning to swim, think and feel: education as the process of creating potential relationships

Abstract

This paper is the narration of a five year investigation/educational experience. The focus of this experience has been the learning process of autonomy on a swimming location, the thinking development and the building of an affective bond. The principles of freedom, dialogic learning and pedagogical mediation have been taken into account, always from the idea of a natural tendency in children to learn. It has been written in first person, as the author is also the pedagogical mediator of the proposal. Marcos, the child that goes through this learning, builds a process of potential relationships that allow him to go through a journey in which he can interrelate the vital different dimensions of human being: thoughts, emotions and mobility.