Os desafios do ensino de filosofia na sociedade atual

Abstract

This essay has resulted about research caused by bother expressed high school Philosophy teachers that complain about indifference students in Philosophy classes and activities with an attitude criticism and reflexive. First, the purpose of research is known if there are reasons in the historical condition can explain this indifference. In second place if our feeling correspond what say and feel our students. Ask for us why students of high school demonstrate this indifference. These manifestations show us this indifference about philosophy and for that is intrinsic, then, is the exercise of a critical and reflexive thinking? Inquire about possible reasons to this indifference; it was analyzed literature that shows teenagers nowadays are involved in a culture return to the pleasure, to the presenteeism and pragmatism. The Carpe Diem and the technophile the desire of have and manipulate the new technology of communication and entertainment- would be forming a young mass with indifference to school, reading, social questions, politics, and economy. According literature the teenagers look like to be lunatic with the reality separated of social-culture and the context that are included. It was realized an observation with a group of fifty-one students and ten teachers of private and public schools with the aim of compare if our perception corresponds to what teachers and students say and feel. Search for writers as Morin, Severino, Cerletti, Gallo,Favaretto, Trípoli, Marcondes Filho and Savater to subsidy the comprehension extraordinary the modern culture and the implications on the growing of the students. Moreover, to find subsidies for the comprehension of the Philosophy contribution on the development of the high school students. The results show us there is an opposite situation to the exercise of reflexive and criticism but the same time for the students that involved in research, there is an agreement about the importance and needed about the theme and philosophy classes and the respect of needed of the development and the exercise critical and reflexive thinking.