A infância do sentido: aportes para o ensino de filosofia a partir de uma racionalidade estética

Abstract

This study introduces the teaching of Philosophy with children based on a philosophical proposal designed by Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908-1961), a phenomenologist and critic of the classic humanist Philosophy. I have developed the category of aesthetic rationality, which originated from this phenomenology, to focus on Philosophy as an attitude that leads to the act of philosophizing, and as perception that can trigger moments in which meanings of the world are grasped. Besides, I believe teaching is a reading of the world, beyond instituted and culturalized meanings, and also its expression, experienced by a subject in his process of knowledge acquisition and, consequently, in the teaching-learning relation. My thesis is that aesthetic rationality is a way to perceive the world that constitutes itself as knowledge. This rationality enables experiences which precede any objective thematization of the world and which are in the origin of the subject s process of comprehension and knowledge about the world. This study essentially aims at making Philosophy and Pedagogy construct a dialogue by analyzing Rousseau s, Comenius , Lipman s, and Dewey s contributions to these areas of knowledge. Gaps that need filling - are being excavated between what has already been thought and creative thinking.