PHILOSOPHING THE TEACHING OF PHILOSOPHY:

REFLECTIONS FROM NON-EUROCENTRIC PERSPECTIVES FOR THE FORMATION OF AN ANTI-RACIST EDUCATION IN BRAZIL

Abstract

Traditionally, Philosophy teaching activities in high school are based on Eurocentric philosophers and philosophies that are exhaustively covered in undergraduate courses. The reality of Brazilian students, in its most diverse plurality, is often far from the problems raised by the academic canon. We believe, in the meantime, that reflections based on the student's reality are a first step in bringing the student closer to philosophy and also developing a critical view of their reality. To this end, we propose that non-Eurocentric philosophical traditions are also contemplated so that this distant reality from the old world can be glimpsed, in the light of other prisms. From the decolonial epistemic turn, mainly in relation to philosophy teaching that is not based on crystallized theories that reaffirm the colonial character of philosophical education, we thought about bringing other perspectives that can dialogue directly with the cultural, social, economic, ethical context, aesthetic and political aspects of these students. The identification of these philosophies as a product of critical thinking that can also be developed by them, allows knowledge and citizen autonomy to develop more easily. In this sense, we argue that this process can generate conditions for anti-racist education inside and outside of school, since the racialization of the plurality of groups that coexist and interact in our societies can be mitigated, perhaps neutralized, with the awareness and problematization of non-racism. hierarchization of cultures, an idea introjected by the coloniality present in the territorial and human exploration by modern European societies. Finally, we propose certain philosophers and philosophies that can assist in the process of a philosophy of liberation, not only for basic education students, but also for the training of teachers at university level in their degrees.