It is intrinsic to humans know the objects and the phenomena around reality, that some viewing by the way, refers to a paradigm that brings an epistemology. In this context, this article aims to raise some principles and assumptions of the traditional paradigm and the emerging paradigm, but also aims to present some implications of these two paradigms in Education. This work was developed through bibliograph search and part of the master's dissertation, defended in the 1st half of 2009, by first author in the Programa de Pós- Graduação em Educação da Pontifícia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais. In the end, contacts that are experiences today a period of paradigmatic changes, we still have much of Cartesian-Newtonian paradigm, but the emergence of new problems from the dynamics of reality we have the challenge of transformation in our being and acting, with attempt to (re) build a more human and diverse.