Philosophical practice in high school: senses and challenges

Abstract

This paper falls within the scope of investigations on the fundamentals and educational practices and it is related to the development of a master's research carried out in Uberaba, Minas Gerais, Brazil. In this text, we propose to contextualize and characterize the senses and challenges pointed out by philosophy teachers to the teaching of this subject at the high school. We take a qualitative perspective, taking into account the use of a mixed questionnaire for data production (GIL, 2010) and the thematic content analysis technique (BARDIN, 2010). Our theoretical framework was supported by Deleuze (1992, 2006), Deleuze e Guattari (1995, 1997a, 1997b, 2005), Nietzsche (2003) e Foucault (1987, 2006, 2007). The senses and challenges attributed by the researched teachers reveals a complexity scenario: if on the one hand the limits imposed by the different bureaucratic aspects of the educational system and the devaluation of philosophy as a thought subject expose the fragility of philosophical practice in high school; on the other hand, the aspects that have been particularized between philosophy and its teaching express the conditions of a provocative philosophical practice of ruptures and movements capable of enunciating, within the own thinking, the cultivation of criticism, autonomy and creativity.