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MOSER, Alvino  y  SOCZEK, Daniel. Filosofia para crianças: apontamentos reflexivos. Revista da FAAEBA: Educação e Contemporaneidade [online]. 2013, vol.22, n.39, pp.171-182. ISSN 0104-7043.

This paper aims to present some reflection on teaching philosophy to children. We believe philosophizing is a human activity, but there are only a few High School and college students interested in it. Our hypothesis is that the formal and informal educational processes discourage children in their dispositions toward philosophy. That occurs because our contemporary society promotes the “mass culture” which limits human condition. This perspective acquires new dimensions with the advent and development of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). In order to present some critical reflection on child’s education process, we follow three steps: first, a brief explanation of what means to be a child in the contemporary world. Second, we present the thesis that in their first years of life children are endowed with the capacity for philosophizing. Finally, we discuss how we can take this child’s predisposition to philosophy as a fundamental source of the educational process.

Palabras clave : Philosophy; Teaching Philosophy; Philosophy for Children.

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