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CAMACHO, Hermelinda  e  FONTAINES RUIZ, Tomás. Implementing philosophy as a strategy for boys and girls: a learning experience. Educere [online]. 2006, vol.10, n.32, pp.91-95. ISSN 1316-4910.

Considering Philosophy for boys and girls as a learning strategy, instructional encounters with university students (LUZ-UNICA) were brought about to develop cognitive skills that allow them to face their personal and/or social reality situations. The sustenance theory was Lipman’s (1992). The techniques used to develop the strategy were the formation of a research and dialog community, as a means to set out situations and to attempt building responses that favor shared learning. The results determined that this learning strategy is a relevant way of generating conceptual changes, because it allows classroom debate based on the students’ interests, facts inferred from dialogs records, drawings, monologues, abstracts presentations, theoretical set-out dismantling, team work construction and expositions, possible problems analysis and solutions, operationalization and construction of studied concepts in icons or symbols and comparative figures by the students.

Palavras-chave : philosophy for kids; learning strategies; research experience.