PHILOSOPHICAL WRITING WORKSHOP AS A TEACHING-LEARNING STRATEGY IN A FULL-TIME HIGH SCHOOL IN NATAL/RN
Philosophical writing; argumentation; writing competencies and skills.
Writing, in addition to being a privileged way to transmit philosophical ideas, is also an element that must be explored in the context of philosophy teaching and learning, which requires the realization of activities that allow students to develop writing competencies and skills. Despite the difficulties, it is important to explore students’ interest, for it is possible that there are written productions with notorious quality, so as to exhibit evidence of authorship. Based on that understanding, as well on Friedrich Schiller’s reflections upon aesthetic education and transmission of written ideas, this work aims to investigate the conditions in which students perform philosophical written productions by carrying out a philosophical writing workshop. This research is qualitative, with exploratory intent, and will be conducted as a multiple-case embedded study, the student being the case and the written production serving as an embedded unit of analysis (two written productions per student). Throughout a school bimester, the participants of the study will be monitored and will realize two written productions, which will be collected and analyzed based on the criteria of clear expression of ideas, cohesion, coherence, and rigor in argument. After the didactic sequence is carried out, the students will be interviewed so as to evaluate their perceptions concerning their written productions. The results of the analyses of written productions and the data collected in the interviews will be correlated for each student, which will be followed by a discussion of the cases among themselves and with available literature about philosophical writing in high school.