Philosophy in fundamental teaching: forming critical citizens?
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This article presents the main points of the program "Philosophy for Children", created by the North American philosopher Matthew Lipman in the 1960s, which proposes the introduction of the philosophy discipline in elementary education and in children's education, exposing its foundations and methods. It explains some key concepts of the program, such as the ideal of democracy and the "research community", analyzing its relationship with the school system and the instituted society. It criticizes some of its aspects and questions the coherence and pertinence of its philosophical pretension and critical formation, contrasting its ideal anthropological model, based on the valorization of the rational potential of the human, to an anthropological vision less defined and delimited.
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