Guest: Rita Pedro
May 2 to 6, 2016 – E.B.1 Bairro Operário / E.B.1 Ameijeira, Lagos
Synopsis
Workshops that aim to provide children with thought experiments and the construction of spaces for sharing, questioning, and problematizing ideas.
In childhood children do not dissociate thought from life. Each of his ideas can be accompanied by a movement inherent to human existence itself, each questioning tends to constitute itself as a real experience, that is, a movement of forces that, by its nature, can come to affect the other, thus inviting him to participate and enter into the same thought experience.
In a Philosophy session, both adults and children are invited to enter into this experience of not knowing, to risk new ways of thinking and asking. In particular, it is about giving voice and expression to the metaphysical, ontological, existential, ethical, and aesthetic questions that inhabit Childhood.
Providing them with the construction of this space implies welcoming and valuing their ideas, listening to their questions without wanting to judge them as right or wrong, as a way to open their thinking to new ways of thinking, thinking what we had never thought of before.
Biography
RITA PEDRO (Lisbon, 1975)
He studied Philosophy at the New University of Lisbon.
Since 1999 he has run Philosophy with Children ateliers, conducted teacher training sessions and given seminars, namely at the Maria Ulrich School of Education.
For 5 years, he guided several projects in the same area, aimed at children and young people between 4 and 18 years old, emigrants and children of emigrants from Cape Verde, in the neighborhood of Cova da Moura.
She was a grantee of the Inovart program in Cape Verde, where she worked with children from rural and fishing communities also in FCC.
She is currently a PhD candidate under the orientation of philosopher José Gil at Nova de Lisboa and UERJ in Rio de Janeiro. He has several articles published, as well as a book chapter “Philosophy Goes to School” edited by NEFI (nucleus of philosophical studies in Childhood at UERJ (Brazil).
She is co-author of the book “Senão Havia Nada como é que É que Surgiu Alguma Coisa?” published by Belém Cultural Center.
