Valicare i confini: fra XXV Congresso Mondiale di Filosofia e XXIX Olimpiadi di Filosofia

Abstract

This essay presents the reflections of a teacher and a student on the preparation, teaching approach and the value of the International Philosophy Olympiad (IPO) as a cultural event and personal experience. Through the dual point of view – of the teacher and the learner – it is sharply pointed out how the experience of the IPO is an occasion of growth for students, precisely because of their referring to knowledge that is not immediately economize-able and expendable in the world of work; and on the other hand, the preparation required to learn how to appropriately compose the essay for the competition, obliges Italian teachers to make a synthesis in the teaching of philosophy between the ‘historical-narrative’ and ‘thematic’ approaches.