EDITH STEIN’S PHILOSOPHYCAL ANTHROPOLOGY CONTRIBUTION TO THE DISCUSSION ABOUT THE PHILOSOPHYCAL AND PEDAGOGICAL EDUCATION OF THE PHILOSOPHY TEACHERS

Abstract

The current work has as a guiding subject the teachers education in the philosophy area and its reflexes in the teaching practice in High School researched according to Edith Stein’s anthropological and pedagogical perspective. The principal objective is to present the theological and philosophycal anthropology and Edith Stein’s pedagogy main concepts as a theoretical subsidy which allows to discuss the matter about teaching education in the philosophy area in its pedagogical and philosophycal aspects in the current context of the Brazilian educational crisis. This work has used bibliographical procedures based on the pedagogical and philosophycal work of STEIN, Edith (2003); ALFIERI, Francesco (2014); SBERGA, Adair Aparecida (2014); RUS, Éric de (2015); TPMAZETTI, Elisete Medianeira et al. (2012); MATTEI, Jean-François (2002); KUSANO, Mariana Bar (2014). The methodological procedure used to the work elaboration has been the phenomenological one once it describes the human being experience properly. The guiding subject which has founded this work has been the following one: how the pedagogical and anthropological concepts of Edith Stein’s philosophycal work can contribute to think about a new structuring of the pedagogical and philosophycal education of the philosophy teachers in the academic context? In order to answer this question it has been necessary to take some steps: the first one has been an introduction of the subject and its aims and methodology; the second one has been a presentation of the methodological and philosophycal way of Edith Stein’s anthropological and theological structuring and her pedagogy as well; the third one has been the explanation of the concepts of body, psyche and soul; the fourth one has been the demonstration of how Edith Stein’s pedagogical and philosophycal concepts can be an efficient tool to think pointedly about the teaching education in the philosophy area and its teaching by means of new educational horizons.