Filosofia com crianças e mascotes: entre filosofia e artesania

Abstract

This dissertation analyzes, in philosophy with children classes, paths that can be taken so that they are meaningful to children, through the use of mascots, puppets, woven by an artisan teacher and linked to stories, dialogue and philosophizing. For this, we established a relationship with the history of philosophy for children, a method developed by the American philosopher Matthew Lipman, responsible for the writing of philosophical novels, considered by many to be a central material to be used in class. Seeking to go further, new words and ways of philosophizing, Walter Omar Kohan and other researchers contextualize philosophizing in a free and creative way, allowing both the child to open up to this world and the teacher. Based on the idea of craftsmanship, of sewing other ways of bringing children closer to philosophy, we introduced mascots to philosophy classes. Such experience - initially performed in face-to-face teaching with continuity in remote education, due to the COVID-19 pandemic-, proved capable of bringing children closer to philosophy, instigating and inspiring them to a creative, playful and engaging philosophizing, as a relevant proposal for teaching philosophy with children.