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Publication Date: 2024
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Activating the Community of Dialogue in a 6th Grade Primary School Class in Mexico City: A Workshop to Strengthen the Thought of Care and Awareness of Peace
María del Rosario del Collado
Analytic Teaching and Philosophical Praxis, v44 n2 p105-118 2024
In the present writing, whose character is more testimonial and practical, the author considers from the perspective of a teacher and specialist the experience of a dialogue community carried out before a group of sixth graders in a private school in Mexico City. To contextualize this experience, first, the author briefly focuses on the current situation in Mexico, which is deeply affected by violence; second, ways that the author encourages actors and the educational sector to assume appropriate responses to this violence from their respective field and creative possibilities is discussed; third, the author describes and analyzes the experience of organizing a dialogue community in a 6th grade class, breaking this down into a series of sessions aimed at empowering the students. Finally, the author concludes with suggestions on how to see the scope and implications of this exercise within the pedagogy of Philosophy for Children, especially in terms of its emphasis on the search for, and construction of, an education for peace. In general, tailoring communities of dialogue to focus on complex everyday issues, informing people about them and providing strategies for dealing with them, acknowledges the complexities of human beings and gives ample opportunities for those leading these communities to utilize their educational expertise to support organizational frameworks.
Descriptors: Grade 6, Foreign Countries, Peace, Private Schools, Discussion, Middle School Students, Workshops, Caring, Student Empowerment, School Community Relationship, Violence
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Elementary Education; Grade 6; Intermediate Grades; Middle Schools; Junior High Schools; Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Mexico (Mexico City)
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