Foucault e o cuidado de si platônico: proposta metodológica para o ensino médio.

Abstract

τur research, Foucault and the platonic care of the self: methodological proposal for high school; proposes a methodology for teaching practice in the high school classroom. τur philosophical referential is Foucault's analysis of the dialogue First Alcibiades in his course The Hermeneutics of the Subject in the classes of January θth and 13th 1982, whose theme is the history of Socratic-Platonic care of the self. Based on the Foucaultian theory of the care of the self, we draw a parallel between Socrates' mastery and the role of the philosophy teacher, as well as between the young Alcibiades and high school students. In its history, care of the self was understood as an attitude towards oneself; as a diligent way of looking at oneself and as a set of practices, of techniques of the self that allowed the subject to change and self-constitute. Based on this theoretical referential, our methodology elaborated a proposal for teaching philosophy to secondary school as a practice of care of the self. Such practice is also an act of resistance in the face of the mode of modern subjectivity, insofar as it allows the subject to consciously choose the values that will govern his life, instead of submitting to the standards established by the powers. Therefore, we applied a sequence of four classes on the theme of gender equality in a class of the first grade of high school at the Francisco Ernesto do Rêgo State Elementary and High School, located in Queimadas/PB. The result of this experience pointed out that teaching philosophy as a practice of resistance to the mode of modern subjectivity based on the care of the self is possible and that this proposal contributed for students to relate the philosophical content to their daily lives.