Philosophical Games with Public School Adolescents

Abstract

This experience report describes the application of philosophical games workshops with students from the Integrated High School of IF Sertão Pernambucano, Rural Campus of Petrolina, carried out during the 22nd National Science and Technology Week of 2025. Under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Gabriel Kafure da Rocha, the initiative used dynamics such as "Philosophical True or False" and "Philosophical Dominoes" to transform the teaching of philosophy into a living, dialogical, and experimental practice, based on the perspectives of Walter Kohan. The methodology sought to break with traditional models of mere content transmission, promoting a horizontal environment of listening and problematization that stimulated the affective engagement, argumentative capacity, and intellectual autonomy of the adolescents. Although it faced challenges such as limited time and the initial difficulty of argumentation by some students, the experience showed that games function as powerful pedagogical devices for the collective construction of meaning and for a critical and democratic education in the context of public schools.