Practice

the responsibility to evoke meaning

Abstract

The article deals with comprehending the meaning of practice, understood not only as a professional performance, but as an expression of what an individual simultaneously does and builds in the world. It addresses the importance of understanding the existence of a practice, both in individual terms – in relation to valuing each person’s uniqueness, and in terms of interdependence with their context, that is, their reverberation for society as a whole. In addition to presenting an idea of practice, it discusses the relationship between the development of a practice, which considers reflection and awareness, in relation to the respon-sibility of human beings and a broader and deeper understanding of the context with which they are linked. From the ob-servation of a family relationship example of the author, and the articulation with relevant bibliographical references for the understanding of the theme, the underlying aspects of what constitutes a practice are unraveled. Supported by the thinking of Paulo Freire, Allan Kaplan, Micheal Meade and Rudolf Steiner, it ar-ticulates the contributions of this study, which point to the understanding that the choice to develop a reflective practi-ce builds humanity, that will only be humanity if it serves to something greater than to itself, that is, to the integrated constitution of the whole, which recog-nizes the importance and intrinsic relationship with everything that exists.