A Imaginação no Ensino de Filosofia: uma proposta de formação baseada na obra de C. S. Lewis

Abstract

The work of Irish writer Clive Staples Lewis served as inspiration and foundation for the proposal developed with the aim of composing teaching methodologies for the discipline of Philosophy in high school. There are, in the aforementioned writer's work, e lements that allow us to think about contemporary education, both fictional ones, such as The Chronicles of Narnia , Out of the Silent Planet and Perelandra, as well as theological and philosophical ones, such as The Abolition of Man, Mere Christianity, The weight of Glory: And Other Address, The Four Loves, The Screwtaple Letters, God in the Dock: Essays on Theology and Eyhics Compelling reason Christian Reflections, among others. The starting point that led to these readings was a biographical book about the writer, If I had lunch with C. S. Lewis, by Allister McGrath. In these works, it was possible to perceive a direction that pointed to a “philosophical composition”, as there were many concepts dear to Philosophy there. We extract from Lewis' ideas the concept of imagination and indicate it as an enabling element for the generation of methodologies for teaching philosophy in high school. Furthermore, we chose the literary text as an essential imaginative element of this aim. A tutorial training course plan was also proposed in order to promote philosophical events in order to disseminate reading in general and make presentations stimulating philosophical reflection. We also try to indicate how this proposal is in accordance with the National Curriculum Guidelines and how such development will be possible from the perspective of the new National Curriculum Base, given that philosophy is an elective subject. The methodology resented will cover, in addition to a bibliographical research, a research based on the observation of the actions of a certain group that will put into action some proposals for activities using creative methods to gradually reach a more philosophical level of debate. The lesson plan is based on texts by C. S. Lewis as scripts.