Practical Philosophy in education: philosophy & praxis of dialogue/discussion
Communities of Sharing through Personal Expression and Active Listening
Nurturing the dialogue through literature and children's literature
Migrant people in children's Philosophy and literature
Education, republicanism, citizenship
Grooving Education: learning to improvise through different languages
From "dialogue" to "interactive situation" in learning environments: a methodological shift in education research and practice
Practical Philosophy in education: philosophy & praxis of dialogue/discussion
University of the Aegean (UAegean)
Laboratory of Research on Practical Philosophy (L.R.P.Ph.)
Department of Preschool Education Sciences & Educational Design
Coordinator οf the Blended Intensive Program
Prof. Elena Theodoropoulou
Directress of the L.R.P.Ph.
Beyond the methodological inputs from philosophy to teaching practice, which education seems to be content with, as they feed its dynamic objectives, philosophy’s teaching forms can be a bridge to incorporate into education ways in which persons perceive reality, to capture and share thinking on the move, to sharpen fine observation, to capture sounds, movements, gestures, silences, as they sculpt and differentiate meanings, to perceive discontinuities and evaluate continuities, linking experiences into narratives and interpretations that organize and reorganize aspects and perspectives of life, introducing the body as a shaper of meanings, giving space to surprise and enduring reversals. Philosophy thus becomes not only a guide to rationality and its anatomy, but a peculiar tool for resilience to non-rational or even irrational aberrations, which nevertheless remain part of experience, cognitive processes, and interpretive openings. A large part of the creativity of philosophy is related to the detailed critique to which it submits the concepts and perceptions that form the theories of life, man and his relations within the social and natural environment on a continuous basis, since this critical positioning, being uninterrupted, reorganizes judgments, theories, stances and positions, leading to new life choices. The development of thinking skills and the multiple cognitive processes through which thought is articulated and reasoning ability is refined and complexified are not limited to rhetorical or argumentative prowess, but are mainly related to the exercise of the ability of individuals to be aware of their choices, which is directly linked to their philosophical attitude, ethics and aesthetics. It would thus be an intense exercise in complex thinking, an ecological kind of thought leading to acts, constructions, performances, the creation of new forms of experiencing life and its images.
This multiple integration of ongoing parameters into a coherent concept capable of supporting the specific philosophical practice and act in the space-time of education, this elusive, plural and untamed raw material and the difficulties of assembling the different levels constitute at the same time, not only a philosophical-pedagogical project of high difficulty and precision, but also a creative act, to the extent that such difficulties can deregulate this system, opening up spaces of perplexity, where philosophy, pedagogy, interlocutors in various settings are called upon to regroup their powers, mental, physical, moral, emotional, aesthetic, cognitive, in a continuous effort to organize common and personal, individual and collective meanings. The systematic articulation of the concept (as basic philosophical lever), with the method (as a way and support of the persons while they act) and the material (as interdisciplinary tool for the development of synergy between philosophy, pedagogy and arts/literature) produces a flexible mechanism of a critical transfer of practical philosophy in educational contexts.
On that grounds, the acknowledgment of practical philosophy as epistemological framework for pedagogical-didactic practices related to philosophical procedures, is desirable to be restored and within this very framework, the discussion/dialogue procedures to take a prominent position because on the hand of their multiple meaningfulness for education and philosophy as well and on the other hand of their innate relation with educational and philosophical praxis and practices. The reason to consider discussion/dialogue forms as a way of practical philosophy to develop in educational environments lies exactly in this double position. Conversely, to this extent, and as we go along the exploration of dialogical/discussional frameworks, methodologies and acts, we have the opportunity to explore simultaneously the possibility for practical philosophy to be recognized on them and, moreover, to extend or reimagine its claims, through the understanding of this exploration as an aspect of its own understanding: could practical philosophy be understood beyond and without any fundamental relatedness with dialogical event?
Bibliography
Theodoropoulou, E., «’’Philosophy for children’’: Spaces and modes for Philosophy», introduction to: Ann Margaret Sharp, Laurence Joseph Splitter, «Philosophy for Children». The Doll Hospital. Giving sense to my world. A programme for the child and the teacher of Preschool Education (dir., trad, introd. notes, Theodoropoulou, H.,), Atrapos: Athens, 2007 [in Greek].
Theodoropoulou, E., «Philosophy, Philosophy for Children, and Educational Aims: Affinities, Parallelisms and Exclusions», in: Marsal, E., Dobashi, T. Weber B. (Hrsg.) Children Philosophize Worldwide: Theoretical and Practical Concepts, Hodos – Wege bildungsbezogener Ethikforschung in Philosophie und Theologie herausgegeben vom Institut für Philosophie und Theologie, University of Education, Karlsruhe, Germany, Band 9, pp. 559-565, 2010.
Theodoropoulou, E., «La pratique du journal à partir d’un cours de philosophie de l’éducation en ligne: un amorçage méthodologique», in: Pratiques de Formation / Analyses [Le journal pédagogique: outil de conscientisation de l’expérience], N°62-63, Novembre, pp. 211-229, 2013.
Theodoropoulou, E. (coord., Greek transl. introd.), Philosophy, philosophy, are you there? Doing philosophy with children, Athens: Diadrasi, series Philosophy and Child, dir., The-odoropoulou, E., Gregory, M.) (p. 367), 2013 [in Greek].
Theodoropoulou, E., «The problematization effect and its double gestures», in: Strand, T., Papastefanou, M. (eds), Philosophy of Education as a Lived Experience: Navigating Through Dichotomies of Thought and Action, Germany: Verlag, pp. 135-152, 2014.
Theodoropoulou, E., «Philosophy of education: ways of presence and absence – from congruence to common sense and back», in: Pereira, P.-Ch. (coord.), L’espace public. Variations critiques sur l’urbanité / Espaço publico. Variaçοes crίtic as sobre a urbanidade, Porto: Ediçoes Afrontamento/ FCT, pp .67-93, 2013.
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Theodoropoulou, E., «Introduction: Faire de la Philosophie: quelques noeuds du pratique», in: Theodoropoulou, E. (dir.), Proceedings of the 1rst International online Pre-Biennale of Practical Philosophy, 9-10 Mai 2020, Rhodes: L.R.P.Ph., pp. 22-41, 2021.
Theodoropoulou, E., «Doing Philosophy Virtually and the Amphibolic Body: Thoughts on the Margins of the Pandemic», Paragrana, vol. 30, no. 2, 2022, pp. 258-269, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1515/para-2021-0040.
Theodoropoulou, E., «The Illusions of dialogue: dialogical experience in the classroom», Ιntroduction in: A. A. Petrou & G. Hadjivassili (coord.), Thinking in Philosophy for Children: Dialogue and Perspectives, Athens: Diadrassi, pp. 55-67, 2022.
Communities of Sharing through Personal Expression and Active Listening
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal (UC)
Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences
Academic Coordinator
Prof. Carlos Francisco de Sousa Reis
Philosophising as dialogical rooted praxis, while an anthropotechnics of emancipation
To explore “Communities of Sharing through Personal Expression and Active Listening” focused on personal interests, desires, and needs, as an agency of several interrelated ways of proceeding, namely through promoting caring, hopeful, critical, and creative modes of thinking (Demir et al., 2011). Transcending the rationalistic algorithm of fixed steps and goals of logical requirements, supposedly able to sift and assure a pre-emptively given universal rational procedure, the “Communities of Sharing” sought to be rooted in personal desires, interests, and needs. Where philosophising emerges as a hybrid conjugation that includes emotions, feelings, and reasonings, which cannot be reduced to formal logic without the hindrance of the contexts used to create meaning, as meaningfulness and truthfulness depend on a horizon that settles a “language game”, i.e., specific language rules that have to be acknowledged, to decide on the plausibility of a line of arguing (Thompson, 2004). Not to mention an existential authenticity grounding. In addition, no language game would encompass all other language games; rather arguments relate to concrete contexts of specific discourse practices, shaped by historical, cultural, and epistemological dimensions.
CS approach, grounded in active participation striving for just, inclusive, sustainable, and solidary societies, opens a way to experience the collective construction of sensing, feeling, and thinking, as a reference to the identity of the person’s expressiveness as a dialogical virtue. Allowing transcendence from the abstract way of assuming philosophising as prerogative of a spectral solipsistic and supernatural “res cogitans”. This does not prevent us from recognising philosophising intimate process. But rather brings us to understand it as a kind of action that distinguishes each person as a unique and unexchangeable being, expressed in the saying and acting, in the Arendtian sense, that entails an aesthetic dimension, which generates human relationships, hence reinstating philosophising as a collective action. Bound to be a source of meaningfulness that illuminates human existence, so recovering a pre-occupation with life, human relationships incorporating the more-than-human (Rimanoczy, Edmundson and Lupinacci, 2011), which claims for rediscovering our being in the world, i.e., human en-housing. Meaning there is no common sense as an inner faculty without a relationship to the world and neither an opposition between “vita contemplative” in detriment of “vita activa”. To overcome such opposition we will have to, not only attribute a worth to forms of “meditation”, eventualy in the sense of Sloterdijk’s anthropotechnics (2009, 2012), as the recovering of the tradition of “the examined life”, which, for us, would be where parrhesia could draw to fulfill is interventive linkage between the bios and the logos, as well as between emancipation and ethics, while not abdicating from critique and resistance, but redirecting the focus from the universal, necessary, and obligatory to the singular, contingent, and the product of arbitrary constraints, making visible singularities where history is imposed, or, following Barthes’s (1972) description, historicizing what has been naturalized. A process entailing polyhedral intelligibility, that keeps the plurality of facets of otherness, never given in advance, never exhausted, and never tamed under an absolute reduction (Biesta, 2013). Now, this will take us to look for what Cadahia (2013) proposes, while not just radicating the emergence of freedom as the foundation of a “new art of living”, but in a reconsideration of politics as a constitutive tension between power and freedom. As for us, we wouldn’t give up of the “aesthetics of existence” as resistance to disciplinary and biopolitical devices and neither of the possibilities of looking at power relations as a double process of subjectivation in which subjects are objectified as well as subjectivised; meaning, they are objectified by being subjected by the practices of power, but they are also subjectified by being objectified by the practices of freedom (Cadahia, 2013, p. 45).
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Nurturing the dialogue through literature and children's literature
Università degli Studi di Bergamo, Italy (UniBg)
Dipartimento di Scienze Umane e Sociali,
Settore Scientifico Disciplinare: Storia della Pedagogia
Academic Coordinator
Dr. Alessandra Mazzini
Making up and consuming stories is not only a human imperative, as Roland Barthes and Jonathan Gottschall affirm, but a real formative condition for each person.
In fact, immersion in narration is above all a human experience of relationality and, therefore, an indispensable and privileged opportunity for the integral and full human formation.
In line with these premises, this section intends to stimulate reflection on reading and narration, starting from early childhood. In this sense, the narration is an elective opportunity that allow children to think about themselves as «cultural beings» in the relationship and in dialogue.
In this context we will analyze the effects that reading and narrative fiction produce on the child’s mind, with particular reference to the ability to feel and understand the emotions of others and to attribute meanings and mental states to oneself and to others.
The role of the adult and the educator in this narrative relationship that is established between a child and a text and the possibilities that the adult has to make a more engaging, interactive, dialogical and therefore productive reading will then be analyzed.
We will therefore explore the ability of shared reading to nurture empathic and relational skills and how dialogue and conversation on narration allow the definition of a new vocabulary, the improvement of verbal fluency and the development of narrative skills also by the child.
We will then analyze, in particular, the potential of the experience of writing, reading and expression through the art of Kamishibai, understood as a moment of imagination and sharing, as an act of giving space, body and voice and as a means for emotional literacy, including the literacy to imaginative thinking and to expressive potentials, which can find ist fulfillment. The section will see the alternation of moments of theoretical reflection and laboratorial moments.
Through Kamishibai, reading and narrating therefore become giving voice to oneself and to others, involving awareness for a working method designed in the harmony of voices, enhancing listening and dialogue. At the center there is the need to know how to listen and be heard. Kamishibai links literature to the imaginative-expressive dimension, engages the exercise of logical, creative, relational thinking. Kamishibai involves the ability to figure and build sequences, the ability to represent, in its descriptive and evocative potential, word and gesture and, through them, allows to get in touch with oneself and with the listener by weaving plots of human relationship, where communication and sharing begin.
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Ciarcià, P., Speraggi, M., Casadei, R., Dallari, M., Ferrarese, I., Lenares, A., Manuzzi, R., & Savino, J. (2019), Kamishibai: istruzioni per l’uso, Artebambini.
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Migrant people in children's Philosophy and literature
Université de Bordeaux, France (UB)
Institut National du Professorat et de l’Éducation de l’Académie de Bordeaux
Academic Coordinator
Dr. Stéphanie Péraud-Puigségur, MCF
The aim of this course will be first to analyze a few albums of children’s literature dedicated to the figures of migrants, in particular migrant children, in order to compare the aesthetic and literary treatment proposed in these albums, based on research on recent production in this field.
Then, the participants will be led to imagine different pedagogical uses of these albums in order to lead the young pupils to dialogue among themselves and with the adults present to interpret and understand the albums and the varied situations of people in a migration situation of which they often have a simplified and distorted representation by the media.
Proposals for the pedagogical use of these albums within the framework of philosophical workshops with young children will then be proposed to lead the pupils to develop empathic skills both with regard to the characters represented in the albums, but also with regard to the pupil-participants in the situation of research and dialogue made possible by the philosophical workshops.
Bibliography
Boimare, Serge, L’enfant et la peur d’apprendre, Dunod, 2014
Bruel Christian, L’aventure politique du livre jeunesse, La Fabrique, 2022
Bucheton Dominique, Soulé Yves, Tozzi Michel, La littérature en débats. Discussions à visée littéraire et philosophique à l’école primaire. SCEREN CRDP Montpellier, 2008
Chirouter, Edwige, Ateliers de philosophie à partir d’albums de jeunesse, Vanves, Hachette, 2016
Macé, Marielle, Sidérer, considérer, Migrants en France, 2017
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Rancière, Jacques, Politique de la littérature, Paris, Galilée, 2007
Education, republicanism, citizenship
Université de Bordeaux, France (UB)
Institut National du Professorat et de l’Éducation de l’Académie de Bordeaux
Academic Coordinator
Prof. Christophe Miqueu
In republican philosophy, rational discussion/dialogue occupies a central place in the way of defining the concept of Republic of citizens and the practice of citizenship. Civic Republic is an institutional space for citizens’ discussion/dialogue. As well used to explain, conceive, convince within the usual framework of democratic expression, discussion/dialogue occupies a main place in the way of developing the conditions of civic life. Life within the polis is historically first and foremost the development of a common (and shared) reason. French republicans, since the Enlightenment, have accentuated this even further by posing the following points which we will examine and question one after the other:
In a democratic republic, citizens must be able to rationally discuss the conditions of their common life
Exchanging through dialogue primarily means using reason, doubting, questioning and understanding in order to collectively progress
Education is the institutional space responsible for learning rational dialogue between future citizens
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Grooving Education: learning to improvise through different languages
Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy (UniPD)
Dipartimento di Filosofia, Sociologia, Pedagogia e Psicologia Applicata (FISPPA)
Academic Coordinators
Dr. Eleonora Zorzi & Prof. Marina Santi
Talking about a “grooving education” means to imagine education as the cursus in which all players, instruments, notes, points and counterpoints follow each other and find a flux (Santi, 2016, p.17). The “groove” is the spiral track cut in a phonograph record, for the stylus to follow. Groove metaphorically expresses a common flow, a shared direction, a mutual intention and intension; it is a positive feeling that accompanies the achievement of satisfaction without softening the tension of dialectics. A grooving education focuses the attention on the processes of sharing sensations and actions within a community; it contains social, inter-subjective and interactional components, which lead to an interpersonal sense of plenty. Groove is the expression and condition of what Sawyer (2007) calls “the group genius” and is founded on collaborative and reciprocal care and scaffolding. The workshop, reasoning about this concept and connecting it to the practice of improvisation in which groove happens and is fostered, will provide activities and experiences in which every participant will perceive the generative learning occasions that improvisation offers, valorising the unrepeatable of every moment and everyone. Fostering activities emerging by different performative languages (i.e., dance, theater, art..) the importance of discussing and dialoguing by listening in an active and complex way the others will be explored (Shem-Tov, 2011). The Community of jazzing-inquiring (Zorzi, Santi, 2023; Zorzi, Santi, 2020) will be the environment in which to develop lessons and activities. The polyphonic groove typical of a jam session is considered as an inspiring analogy of what should happen in the community of inquiry, when the discourse leads to a common thinking where the ideas grow up together.
Bibliography
Santi, M. (2016). “Education as Jazz: a framework to escape the monologue of teaching and learning”. In M. Santi, E. Zorzi (eds.). Education as Jazz: Interdisciplinary Sketches on a New Metaphor. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing; pp. 3-27.
Sawyer, K. (2007). Group Genius: the Creative Power of Collaboration. New York: Basic Books.
Shem-Tov, N. (2011). “Improvisational Teaching as Mode of Knowing”. The Journal of Aesthetic Education, Volume 45, Number 3, Fall 2011, pp. 103-113.
Zorzi, E., Santi, M. (2020). “Improvising inquiry in the community: the teacher’s profile”. Childhood & philosophy, v. 16, pp. 01 – 17.
Zorzi, E., Santi, M. (2023). “How to generate (educate) an inquiring-jazzing community: free and open suggestions from an international workshop (ICPIC 2022)”.Childhood & philosophy, v. 19, pp. 01- 22.
From "dialogue" to "interactive situation" in learning environments: a methodological shift in education research and practice
Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania (ΒΒU)
Faculty of History and Philosophy, Department of Philosophy
Academic Coordinator
Prof. Ion Copoeru
Participatory sense-making in the context of flexible modes of engagement
One of the issues in the enactive theory of sense-making is if sense-making should be seen as an inherently active concept. Therefore, we have to acknowledge that there is not a definitive (stabilised) operational closure at the level of the individual living organism and the emergence of a world of significance does not (at least not always) involve an active sense-making. In an attempt at solving this tension, the paper will take another path than that of Fuchs and de Jaegher, who proposed the concept of “mutual incorporation, i.e. a process in which the lived bodies of both participants extend and form a common intercorporality.” (2009) My proposal will be to take the interaction process as central in participatory sense-making and to bring together insights from interactional sociology and enactivist theories.
The model for the participatory sense-making will be the emergence of the meaning in the organization itself of the action. Therefore, the popping up of a world of significance will be a matter of practical competency. The paper will emphasize the need for a more flexible and encompassing ‘ontology’ of the modes of engagement and, for that purpose, will discuss the concept of “meshed architectures” (Varga and Gallagher 2020) and the performative theory of hybridity (Camilleri 2020).