EVENT-CLASS: PHILOSOPHY TEACHING IN THE CONTEXT OF SCHOOL VIOLENCE AND PREJUDICE
The present dissertation aims at a philosophical reflection in the area of Philosophy teaching, specifically the philosophy class as an event and its possibility of being a space of discussion and problematization exercise regarding the problem of violence experienced in everyday school life in the various forms of prejudice. This research is structured from the experience records of a didactic sequence proposed over approximately one two-month period, corresponding to the months of August and September, with a total of six classes in which the central theme addressed was violence at school, specifically the school unit in which we are inserted. The problematization of the theme of violence allows us to perceive the amplitude that the philosophy class takes on when its subjects start to pose reality as a philosophical problem. The time, space, and attitude of those who are part of a class - teacher and student - appear as signs of representation of a class that may have as its theme an aspect of the concrete reality of the student and the teacher. As far as violence at school is concerned, it is fundamental to discuss the disciplinary power to which the subjects involved in education are subjected, a power that is violent in the way it affects the body of individuals. To violate, exclude, and discriminate is to violate the subject's body. Thus, from the experience reports of the didactic sequence applied and the reflections that emerged from it, it is possible to think of a philosophy class that covers aspects of concrete life, or that brings to the philosophical discussion issues that are part of everyday life but are still far from the problematization they could have, as well as to realize that, in the philosophy class, each student can put himself in front of the reflection of life aspects in which he can see himself recognized. The philosophy class, in this sense, shows itself as an experience and a space for discussion and problematization of something that the student knows, understands, and experiences in his own body, in this case, violence in its various forms of prejudice.