IN DEFENSE OF PHILOSOPHY:
BETWEEN A POLITICAL POSITION AND PHILOSOPHY IN THE CLASSROOM
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7443/problemata.v10i5.49662Keywords:
Philosophy teaching, Philosophy in Brazil, High school, Philosophy educationAbstract
In the Brazilian context, the place of philosophy in human education has gone through constant devaluation. A decade after its return as a mandatory school subject of basic education curriculum, there is no longer a concern in defending its presence as a disciplinary knowledge. The events of the present time have caused the emergence of a discourse already constructed in Brazil since the 1980s, in which the subject used to be thought as crucial to human education. This was due the peculiar qualities to the philosophical tradition, of criticism and resistance to the impositions of the present time. Although the importance of this political position is acknowledged, the goal of this paper is to problematize the only abstract construction of defending philosophy in the classroom, without thinking about the limits and possibilities of teaching and learning practices that cross the philosophy teacher’s education as well as the subject in basic education. Thus, it is argued that political engagement, in favor of the presence of philosophy, can only happen grounded on an investigation of the relationships that are established within the classroom, on behalf of philosophy as well as its teaching and learning.
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