%0 Journal Article %T Moral education and culture Educa o moral e cultura %A Pedro Goergen %J Estudos de Sociologia %D 2010 %I Universidade Estadual Paulista %X The text aims at clarifying some of the most relevant aspects of moral education in the plural contemporary world. We take into account that moral education is possible and necessary since it is conceived as a cultural and ethical renovation promoted by education in all its dimensions and by aiming at the formation of a public consciousness. In order to do so, it is necessary for school to abdicate its position as a promoter of the excluding and marginalizing system and start to institute a process of understanding in the scope of a public, democratic, respectful and tolerant space. Keywords: Moral education. Ethics. Culture. Plurality. Public space. O texto busca elucidar alguns dos mais relevantes aspectos da educa o moral no mundo plural contemporaneo. Parte-se do suposto de que a educa o moral ¨¦ poss¨ªvel e necess¨¢ria, desde que concebida como uma renova o cultural e ¨¦tica promovida pela educa o em todas as suas dimens es, com vistas ¨¤ forma o de uma consci¨ºncia p¨²blica. Para tanto, faz-se necess¨¢rio que a escola abdique de sua posi o promotora do sistema excludente e marginalizador e passe a instituir um processo de entendimento no ambito de um espa o p¨²blico, democr¨¢tico, respeitoso e tolerante. Palavras-chave: Educa o moral. ¨¦tica. Cultura. Pluralidade. Espa o p¨²blico. %K Educa o moral %K ¨¦tica %K Cultura %K Pluralidade %K Espa o p¨²blico %U http://seer.fclar.unesp.br/estudos/article/view/2556