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Philosophy for Children as a Way to Individuality
| According to United Nations strategy studying of philosophy promotes distribution and strengthening of ideas of the world and solidarity. «Teaching of philosophy promotes development of the free citizen». Realization of the given idea should promote the multilevel system of philosophical formation including a step of school education. Upbringing of the free citizen of the world begins since childhood because children's age is most susceptible to ideas of good, beauty, friendship at simultaneous indifference to every possible displays of harm in a kind the soldier, conflicts, conflicts. The philosophy is considered as a sphere of reflective knowledge allowing strengthening in consciousness of people of prosocial installations.
Familiarizing of the child with culture of the native people and nations of the world through comprehension, first of all, their spiritual riches, is necessary for its successful socialization. Studying philosophically is capable to render the essential help in this work. Modern movement «Philosophy for children» has got the international scale that testifies to importance and the importance of philosophical knowledge in system of high-grade formation of children in the XXI century for a short time interval. Nowadays it isn’t enough to be simple the person reasonable, it’s necessary to count thus possible variants of those or other actions and to be able to bear responsibility for the acts.
The philosophy is «freedom school» and first of all «thought freedom». The most effective and widespread method of familiarizing of children to philosophical knowledge is Socrates’ dialogue where as the basic value ability to think independently acts. Development in children of skills of «correct thinking» is necessary pledge of their successful training and a growing in the conditions of a postindustrial society. In the world where there is a continuous process of increase in information streams, become the extremely necessary skills of logic thinking free from ready templates and standards. Consequently, the inquiry about philosophical formation of children will increase in the near future only.
The modern Russian society endures next «an epoch of changes», characterized by reconsideration of a role and a place of culture and formation in life structure. Therefore a necessary stage of spent reforms including in reforms in education, the wide philosophical analysis of the generated problems is. Perspective direction in development of a school step of education is not only realization of substantive provisions of Bolonsky process, but also introduction of courses «Philosophy to children» in wide practice.
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