Abstract

KOHAN, Walter O  and  KENNEDY, David. The school and the future of cholé: a preliminary dialogue. Espac. blanco, Ser. indagaciones [online]. 2015, vol.25, n.1, pp.213-228. ISSN 1515-9485.

This dialogue took place via email during a few months in 2013 and introduced as the Closing Conference of the XVI International Congress of ICPIC (International Council for Philosophical Inquiry with Children) in Cape Town, South Africa in August 2013. In this case, the conversation mainly revolves around the following issues: a) the relationship between school, childhood and time; b) philosophy as collective research in school; c) questioning as an engine of the educational experience; d) the school as a place of justice. In order to think around these issues, the authors refer to multiple sources, ancient and contemporary, as Heraclitus, Socrates, H. Marcuse, M. Lipman and J. Rancière. The beginning of the dialogue gets the etymological meaning contained in the greek word scholé to problematize the temporal experience that takes place in contemporary school. From there the authors develop an exchange on the political effects of the practice of philosophy at school, for which are also considered and faced some critics to collective philosophical investigation. The dialogue does not seek to close the issues raised and faces but rather think about them more complex and widely.

Keywords : Dialogue; schole; time; childhood philosophy.

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