Pereira, Rui Lopes Penha2015-07-222015-07-222015-07-03AUT: RPP00018;http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/6678Aiming at improving the pedagogic encounter, I look into some aspects of the philosophy of language mainly in Martin Heidegger. I try to go beyond some of the more trivial views in the pedagogic theory, like stating that we should draw on students previews experiences and concepts, when introducing new ones. Specially underlined two Heideggerian insights: though the word is not the thing, nevertheless that same word is the house of being.engPedagogiaPedagogyHeideggerconference object