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classroom ... you can use music, you can use body, art …. the last stage of this has to do
with jazz.

Ok. So through this way we have reach jazz… Jazz is the last thing that you are doing?

Yes.

Before we go there, I would like to ask you, because you are doing teachers training and

trying to help them become facilitators instead just teachers. What if you have teachers

that they are not particularly interested in philosophy by themselves? Is training
necessary for all teachers that you have in your department for instance or it is something
that a teacher can select according to weather he likes it or not?

Well, I had both experiences. I had laboratories with students that were involved in the
pre-service course in order to become primary teachers and also secondary school

teachers. So I propose them this laboratory for all the students involved in discourses
without the possibility to choose P4C as something that they are attracted to.

So you had people that liked it but also people that didn't really find it attractive.

Yes, we have also each year a course in P4C specialized in creating community of inquiry
through philosophical dialogue ...

Yes, because according to my perception it could be quite dangerous to have a teacher

doing philosophy if he doesn't like it or if he is doing it in a way that it is not philosophical
but like trying to make children think in a particular, specific way like as philosophy is a

structured thing that we do that and that and that. So what is your thinking about that?

In a way I think that what was important in our courses is to propose a format that could

be really recognizable. So we propose text, novel, manuals, a way of doing this kind of
sessions that we call community of inquiry.

You still do that?

Yes. Each year we have these courses, we have around 40, 50, 30 students from all over

the Italy that participate to these courses, take credits in philosophy, psychology and

pedagogy and so on. This is an opportunity.

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