Area of Concentration

Philosophy Teaching

The Professional Master’s Degree in Philosophy, with a concentration area in Philosophy Teaching, aims to provide solid theoretical and practical training for Philosophy teachers working in basic education who are interested in transforming their teaching experience into a subject of deeper study and research.

This concentration area is currently divided into two lines of research: (1) Foundations of Teaching, Curriculum, and Educational Policies; and (2) Practices of Philosophy Teaching. Each of these lines guides several research projects focused on issues closely related to the reality of Philosophy teaching in Basic Education.

Students in this program are encouraged to develop intervention proposals based on innovative pedagogical methods, curriculum implementation initiatives in their schools, and to investigate ethical, political, and epistemological issues related to the teaching and learning of philosophy that arise from their own classroom experience as Philosophy teachers.

Thus, this area seeks to teach how to teach Philosophy without reducing it to the mere transmission of content or with the presumption of teaching Philosophy to Philosophy teachers; on the contrary, it aims to create the pedagogical conditions that enable Philosophy teachers in Basic Education to engage in a process of self-development in which their work as teacher-philosophers can be refined at a high level of stricto sensu postgraduate studies, thereby turning Philosophy teachers into Masters in Philosophy.