Abstract

HECKER, Arianne. The effects of times and spaces on new scholar subjectivities. child.philo [online]. 2013, vol.9, n.17, pp.171-213. ISSN 1984-5987.  https://doi.org/110.12957/childphilo.2017.26171.

The author and her colleagues have been conducting philosophical experiences with children and teenagers in the city of El Bolson, Río Negro, Argentina, since 2007. During 2011 and 2012, we worked on different levels--with kindergarten students, in primary and secondary schools and in colleges-and also held regular meetings with all the teachers involved in the experience. A rigorous, in-depth analysis of these meetings allowed us to establish a common list of criteria, so as to arrive at a systematic way of evaluating the quality of our own work with children. The general criteria were: 1) What does the facilitating adult want to know, and how are her questions related to the child's? 2) What can we learn about the evolution of the child's thinking when he is faced with the "big questions" about human life and gives us his point of view? How do these responses differ according to age? These criteria allow us to study children's representations and their evolution over time. 3) What internal changes do children experience as a result of the experience of doing philosophy? This question relates directly to the discoveries children make about themselves during the philosophy workshops, and it evokes the fundamental question at the heart of our research: what is the use of these workshops? What aspects of child development do they serve, how do they influence the images that children are able to make of their own capacities and of their own culture? The specific criteria designed for each grade level and some of the results of our analysis are also discussed in this paper.

Keywords : Philosophize; Childhood; Adolescence; Education.

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