Enseñanza de la filosofía para niños a través del arte

Abstract

Facing the methodological and historical development of the philosophy, it is considered the possibility to design a general educational proposal for the teaching of philosophy to children by means of the art, by integrating the basic competences and achievements to the artistic education that is presented by Ministerio de Educación Nacional to enhance in kids those aptitudes that make them to be better active subjects of the philosophy and the art, such us the amazement, the interest to know something from the world that needs to be revealed; the truth; to make from children, thinking beings, an asker community able to ask themselves and ask the others, in the same way, a classroom that becomes a context to philosophize where everyone express through the creative performance those things that they go comprehending about the world, about himself or herself and about the others. To do this, three constitutive elements are described as the art as the philosophy that are directly related with the program of Philosophy for Children by Lipman & Sharp and that allow the reflexive philosophic work of the kids, on the basis of a hermeneutic exercise about the reality that takes them to express by means of the innovative artistic or recreational performance about something that includes from the dialogic, so the child is understood as an active subject of the philosophy and the art.