“Prejudice in the end is a conviction”: Critical Discourse Analysis, Philosophy for Children and Hate Speech
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Critical Discourse Analysis, Philosophy for Children, hate speech, philosophical dialogue, decostructing prejudiceAbstract
This contribution will address the epistemological issues underlying a possible dialogue between Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and the Philosophy for Children (P4C) educational programme. In particular, it will focus on the possibility of analysing philosophical dialogue – understood as a specific type of interactional discourse – through analytical tools inspired by CDA and, specifically, by the perspective of the ideological triangle proposed by Teun van Dijk (2015). The dialogues examined took place during a number of P4C sessions with pupils at a school in Naples (Italy), organised between March and May 2022, as part of a doctoral research project aimed at combating and preventing hate speech among adolescents. The analysis was conducted taking into account both the epistemic construct related to the development of complex thinking (Lipman, 2000, 2003; Sharp, 1995, 2004, 2005) and that related to critical discourse analysis inspired by the field of ideology (van Dijk, 2006, 2008, 2012, 2015).
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