“Comunidades de investigação”: memórias dos sujeitos educativos sobre as vivências das aulas de filosofia para crianças.

Abstract

This text is structured into four chapters and it examines the interest of children in philosophy classes. This search: "Communities Investigate - Memories of Educational Subjects on the experiences of Philosophy Classes for Children", shows the experience of philosophical dialogues with the child public. This is the central theme: the seek for memories of the subject and my philosophical experiences when I was a responsible for the planning, design of projects, choice of experiences and drawing up targets to be worked in the processes of discussion with children. This project occurred at São José, a school that belongs to a Franciscan Congregation in Erechim, since 2001 to 2005. Thus, I intend to investigate the methodological path through bibliographic aspects ally to the methodology of " História Oral Temática" in witch the author explains his memories about the philosofical process through semi-structured interviews, these explanations are divided into distinct groups: students (three, children aged eight to fourteen years old), teachers (two rulership teachers), parents (three parents), three representatives administrative group and the managers. So the problem that motivates this study is: what are the memories of education subjects that are involved in the process of philosophical dialogues and experiences concerning the project of Philosophy for Children that has been developed between the years 2001 to 2005 at São José? Then, this study priotizes educational opportunities and relevances in the program of Philosophy classes for childrens concerning some aspects by Mattew Lipman. Also I intend to search for ways of working and teaching philosophy with children and methodologies about teaching this according to important authors and the reasons that motivated the inclusion of the project at São José School in order to detect important knowledge about teacher training. In summary through this study was possible to learn about how important the philosophical knowledge is for the practice teaching professionals from all areas of knowledge. The educational opportunities found in these memories and theoretical notions involves the "ludicidade", the use of the method to mediate philosophical dialogues with children; try to understand the childhood as a stage of development where the child expressed a language basically in a symbolic way, and specially about the importance of philosophy as way of showing experiences and exchanges between children and the importance of teaching and working relations of solidarity and support in a school environment.