Programska knjižica - Hrvatsko filozofsko društvo

PHILOSOPHY FOR CHILDREN
IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE
Philosophy with/for children is a modern philosophical discipline which
is an integral part of contemporary philosophy in practice. This young philosophical
discipline in the last thirty years is spreading all over the world. The
same is happening in the area of Eastern and Central Europe, although still
in modest indications. In my paper I will present the results of this young
philosophical discipline from three points of view. First, I will show the way
in which philosophy for children is present in the primary schools in this area.
I will explore the original approach of philosophy for children and the development
of existing approaches (Lipman, Tozzi, Brenifier etc.) At the end
I will present the number of publications on philosophy for children in the
last twenty years in this area. Finally, I will present arguments supporting
the necessity of philosophy with/for children, as well as the development of
thinking in school systems that are mostly based on short-term memorizing of
(un)necessary facts.
DEJAN DONEV
Institute of Journalism, Media, and Communications, Faculty of Law, University
“St. Kiril i Methody” in Skopje, Macedonia /
Institut za novinarstvo, medije i komunikacije, Pravni fakultet, Sveučilište
»Sv. Kiril i Metodij« u Skopju, Makedonija
A CRITIQUE ABOUT STUNTED MIND
Just as any other philosophy, the Macedonian philosophy, which was being
developed in a particular political system that survived its collapse in the
beginning of the 1990’s, paid the price of transition of systems. This led to
today’s strange situation in Macedonia where philosophy figures in quotation
marks rather than as a possible interpreter and answerer to the challenges
which are the consequence of the mentioned changes.
Supportive to that statement is the fact that actually the dialogue on the
concept of life, on the concept of the human space, and on the role of man in
creating life, instead of staying within the frames of philosophy – which could,
through checking the practice, give a theoretical explanation of what is happening
in that practice, and offer a way out – it is brought to the situation of
merely offering ad hoc interpretations which justify the imposed solutions of
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