THE TEACHING OF PHILOSOPHY IN THE CONTEXT OF THE SKILLS AND HABILITIES OF THE NEW HIGH SCHOOL

Abstract

This paper aims to examine how Philosophy Teaching fits into the context of skills and competences. So, it is essential to understand the concepts of skills and competences, in order to reflect how the philosophic contents have to be preserved. That said, from a set of laws responsible for grounding what is understood as a new High School, the institution of a Common National Curriculum Base became essential. Such normative document should guide the assembly of the curricular arrangement of all schools, public and private, throughout Brazil, mobilizing essential knowledge for students during High School. However, our reader will observe that the notion of skills and abilities is not a new one in Brazilian education literature, as well as some critical aspects about the concepts of abilities and competences. The best understanding of Philosophy Teaching in the New High School context, tends to tends to have repercussions on resistance actions and, consequently, on the maintenance of philosophical content throughout the process of implementing the Education reform. Since it is qualitative research, the methodological procedure the structural reading of the text was adopted, combined with content analysis. The consulted sources were books, scientific articles, and educational legislation that, together, provided the basis for this paper