Teaching Philosophy as Education for Thinking through Derrida's Ideas

In this paper, Derrida's viewpoint on the need to teach philosophy in schools and universities to improve the quality of student's thinking is examined. The development of thinking in students is one of the fundamental factors in the transformation of education, and teaching philosophy as thinking from Derrida's perspective provides the philosophical context for this transformation. In this study, descriptive–analytical research method is used. To explain the problem and answer the questions, a selection of the philosophical foundations of Derrida's thought is stated, emphasizing the need to teach philosophy for thinking in schools and universities. The findings suggest that teaching philosophy, which is according to Derrida a kind of education for thinking, necessarily includes thinking about the school and the question of what is the philosophy of education. Philosophical thinking should also be combined with thinking about _and beyond_ philosophy, to allow the university to practice philosophy and challenge it at the same time. Therefore, thinking, in the broad, affirmative sense Derrida ascribes to it, is essential to both school and university, then the two institutions should be placed along the same continuum, differing in degree but not in kind.