O ensino de filosofia no ensino médio: uma análise das concepções dos professores da rede pública de ensino do Estado de São Paulo

Abstract

The present paper was submitted to the inland São Paulo Board of Teaching, and relates to the line of research called Instituição Escolar: Gestão e Organização (School Institution: Management and Organization) that, overall, aims to problematize the conceptions of the Philosophy teachers about its teaching in the São Paulo state schools. The concern with the theme is relevant seeing that, since the 90s, with the Brazilian Educational Bases and Guidelines Law (in Portuguese: Lei de Diretrizes e Bases LDB) n. 9,394/96, the most diverse challenges were posed to the research and to the school praxis, with the intention of quenching a theoretical-practical vacuum caused by over thirty years of absence of the Philosophy discipline from the Brazilian curriculum a historical process that had led to the draining of the researches then. Methodologically, the research was based on a qualitative approach, by the use of three procedures: i) bibliographic research; ii) application of questionnaires; and iii) application of interviews. With the bibliographic research it became possible to draw, in general lines, the main theoretical trends that problematized, philosophically, the teaching of Philosophy. To do so, the classics of tradition were taken into consideration, without losing sight of the contemporary contributions on the theme. Thereafter, through the procedures ii and iii, there was the collection, analysis and problematization of the conceptions of the Philosophy teachers about teaching that discipline, counterbalancing them with the theories. The results have brought to light the necessity of educational public policies that harmonize better with the contemporaneity, that is, ones that consider the History of Philosophy without, nonetheless, neglecting the necessity of the thinking experience provided by Philosophy, and the relationship between the docent with the philosophical doing.