John Dewey: ideas to think about the teaching of philosophy and its

Abstract

The article defends the inclusion of philosophy as a teaching and learning space in educational institutions. It starts from recognizing the need to philosophically approach the question for its teaching and reconstruct the sense in which we understand it as a previous step to its defense. In this framework, the discussion of a teaching centered on philosophy as a course, or on the philosophical tradition is retaken as a classic debate on the didactics of philosophy. As a central contribution, we investigate John Dewey's conception of philosophy and the reasons for the study of this course, which represents an overcoming of the traditional dabte between Philosophy-philosophize. The author claims philosophy as “philosophizing”, although he assumes the study of the philosophical tradition as necessary to emancipate ourselves from ideas and prejudices that we have incorporated without recognizing them as such. At the same time, it defends the study of tradition as a set of ideas that should be put into dialogue with the present and, thus, they are tools for thinking about current affairs. Finally, the article raises the subject's own curiosity, the feeling of wonder at the universe and its enigmas, as another great motivating reason for the study of philosophy.