THE TEACHING OF CRITICAL AND DECOLONIAL THINKING IN PHILOSOPHY with bell hooks
Self-actualization, Multiculturality, Philosophical education
This research investigates the concept of Self-Actualization and its application in the Multicultural Classroom, analyzing the role of philosophy in the construction of knowledge with young people and children, starting from Elementary School II (final years). The investigation is based on the works of thinker, writer and teacher bell hooks: Teaching to Transgress: Education as a practice of freedom; Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope; and Teaching Critical Thinking. Based on the Engaged Pedagogy, proposed by the author, we seek to reflect on the role of each individual in the classroom and on how learning develops collaboratively and individually. In addition to relating engaged pedagogy to philosophical education, it is proposed to analyze the feasibility of developing, in the school context, a critical consciousness that guides people in training as political and social beings. The research also addresses the multicultural classroom and the educational demands that challenge teachers in their teaching, relating the notions of engaged pedagogy, self-actualization and multiculturalism. It is recognized that the educational process depends on an active community, where teachers and students collaborate in the construction of thought and knowledge. Using the methodology of autobiographical writing, in dialogue with hooks, this research carries out a reflection, based on the training process of a philosophy teacher, about the problem of Eurocentric philosophy teaching and proposes, as a product, the development of a Laboratory of Philosophical Investigations, in which an anti-racist curriculum is a tool for teaching counter-hegemonic philosophy.