The Disputandum as Educational Practice in Primary School

Abstract

The contribution looks at disputandum as a possible educational practice aimed at children who attend primary school in order to train them in early years on founded and ethically oriented discussion and rigorous reasoning. Such an education in discussion and reason is more urgent today given the risks and challenges we are immersed in, with particular regard to the younger generations. It is an education that questions Arendtian thought – and therefore Kantian thought – in order to understand the margins within which it is possible to recognize the theoretical foundations of an educational practice in primary school that promotes the ability at an early stage to discuss with others in a dialogical manner, through well-founded arguments and in view of an intersubjectively conceived, desired and acted position, in the name of the common good.