Thinking education workshops
Sonia Claris
Learning to think has always been at the center of studies on learning and teaching, as an art of teaching. Philosophy, in its practice and action, can become an interesting field of work to develop and nurture critical, thoughtful and caring thought, as explained by J. Dewey and M. Lipman. The philosophical laboratory for educating to think proves to be a new teaching practice to the test of the classroom, which is presented here through a realization in some classes of secondary school of I and II degree. This experience of research-action has allowed us to gather some qualitative reflections on the formative validity of this approach. To learn to think, according to the proposed approach, it is necessary to practice socially co-built practice, combining the classical tradition of philosophy with American pragmatism and the principles of socio-constructivism in the pedagogical field.
Keywords
Critical, creative and caring thinking, philosophizing, laboratory of practice of thought, comunity of practice, transformative process.