Problematizing the world around us and thinking otherwise: an experience of philosophy with children in dialogue with Michel Foucault’s thoughts

• Main Authors: Francisco Javier Guardado Mendoza, Juliana Merçon
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Asociación Latinoamericana de Filosofía de la Educación 2017-04-01
• Series: IXTLI
• Online Access: http://ixtli.org/revista/index.php/ixtli/article/view/78

During a school cycle of a year we implemented an experience of philosophy with children inspired by the thoughts of Michel Foucault. The objective of our meetings was to foster thought-experiments aimed at problematizing the world around us and thinking otherwise. In the course of our experience, the thoughts of children led to different questions and reflections which we have organized according to five categories in dialogue with the ideas of Foucault: 1) critical thinking, 2) self-criticism, 3) curiosity, 4) relationship with the truth and 5) thinking otherwise. In this paper, we share a part of the expressions that, from our perspective, show how children thought differently about the world that surrounds us, and their own thinking.