어린이 철학교육을 위한 어린이 ‘철학함’의 본질 탐색

• 영문명: A Study on the Nature of‘Doing Philosophy’ of Children as the Basis of Philosophy Education for Children
• 발행기관: 한국교육철학회
• 저자명: 장사형(Chang, Sha-Hyung)
• 간행물 정보: 『교육철학』敎育哲學 第48集, 307~337쪽, 전체 31쪽
• 주제분류: 사회과학 > 교육학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2012.12.31

영문 초록

This paper is the study of the nature of ‘doing philosophy’ of children as the basis of philosophy education for children. In order to discover it, this study looks at ‘doing philosophy’, as a thinking process of children. In detail, focusing on how children’s thinking and experience can be related to philosophy and with that, giving arguments for possibility of philosophy education for children as well as offering some directions and tasks for that. Until a recent date, the idea of philosophy education for children was negatively viewed dominantly. The reason for that was that philosophy was understood as a difficult study that requires logical insistence and abstract thinking system. However, philosophy is a series of thinking process that starts from ordinary life to raises questions, and to find solutions for it. In other words, philosophy is a study of a series of process to discover the source, which is looked upon as doing philosophy, instead of some kind of thought that has been accumulated by philosophical thinking. On this note, children’s daily life where they constantly raise questions about the world around them can ultimately be seen as a process of ‘doing philosophy’. If children’s philosophical life is acknowledged, then the possibility of philosophy education for children has to be acknowledged as well. The material of philosophy education for children is not ‘philosophy’ as contents which learn the professional philosophical knowledge, but ‘doing philosophy’ as a process of life which think critically about everything, caring for others’ situation, and understanding. In this, philosophy education for children should be naturally fulfilled by community of philosophical inquiry through activity and play. Along with peers and teachers, children should gain philosophical wisdom by experiencing ‘doing philosophy’.

목차

Ⅰ. 들어가는 말

Ⅱ. 어린이 ‘철학함’의 본질

Ⅳ. 어린이 철학교육의 가능성 논의

Ⅳ. 어린이 철학교육의 방향과 과제

Ⅴ. 맺는 말

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키워드

philosophy children philosophy for children doing philosophy philosophy education for children community of philosophical inquiry