The Construction of the Philosophy Curriculum at the School of Basic Education of the Federal University of Uberlândia - Eseba / UFU

Abstract

This experience report presents a systematic reflection on the insertion of the Philosophy discipline since the 1st year of elementary school, as it understands that it is an area of essential knowledge for the formation of critical and reflective thinking. In this way it helps the individual to think well for the rectum to act. It differentiates Philosophy from other knowledge and reflects on its emergence in Ancient Greece until it reached contemporaneity, when it became a school discipline. It addresses the situation of the discipline in the period of the Military Dictatorship and the laws that, sometimes withdraw, sometimes insert the discipline in the curriculum of Basic Education. It also presents that, like the North American philosopher Matthew Lipman, creator of the Philosophy for Children program, the authors of this work have been concerned with introducing children since the first year of elementary education in the universe of Philosophy. As it does not fully agree with Lipman's ideas and practices, this work presents the path of the creation of the Philosophy curriculum to be used at the Basic Education School of the Federal University of Uberlândia, M.G.