José Manuel Touriñán López
Mesoaxiológica quiere decir comprender el medio valorado. Y en Pedagogía, la perspectiva mesoaxiológica significa comprender el medio valorado como educativo. Estudiar es una actividad y, en primer lugar, tiene valor pedagógico porque se usa para educar; es un medio para una finalidad especificada. Pero además, estudiar tiene su propia finalidad, vinculada conceptualmente al término ‘estudiar’; su finalidad es dominar-lograr saber aquello que se estudia. En perspectiva mesoaxiológica, no es lo mismo valorar la actividad de estudiar, porque es un medio para educar, que valorar la actividad de estudiar, porque la actividad en sí educa; es decir, no significa lo mismo para la Pedagogía decir que estudiamos para educarnos (para lograr finalidades educativas), que decir que, al ejecutar la actividad de estudiar, nos educamos. Si esa diferencia se significa, estudiar no solo tiene valor propedéutico, sino valor educativo en sí, porque la propia actividad de estudiar, al ser ejecutada, nos educa. En este caso, lo importante no es qué cosa estudio y cuál es la finalidad instrumental del estudio, sino que lo importante es la actividad misma de estudiar, porque me ‘educo con’ la actividad, al ejecutarla, y no solo por la meta educativa que persigo, sino por usar esa actividad.
Mesoaxiological means to understand the valued mean. And in Pedagogy, the mesoaxiological perspective means understanding the mean valued as educational. Studying is an activity and, in the first place, it has pedagogical value because it is used to educate; it is a mean for a specified aim. But also, studying has its own aim, conceptually linked to the term 'study'; its purpose is to master-to know the one which is studied. In mesoaxiological perspective, it is not the same to value the activity of studying, because it is a mean to educate, that to value the activity of studying, because the activity itself educates; that is to say, it does not mean the same thing for Pedagogy to say that we study to educate ourselves (to achieve educational purposes), that to say that, when we execute the activity of studying, we educate ourselves.If that difference is meant, studying not only has propaedeutic value, but educational value in itself, because the very activity of studying, when It is executed, educates us. In this case, the important thing is not what matter I study and what is the instrumental purpose of the study, but what is important is the activity of studying itself, because I 'educate with' the activity, when I am executing it, and not only for the goal I pursue, but using that activity