ABSTRACT
In Brazil, the field of philosophy of education is a very complex one. There is a very strong influence of Christian thinking when it comes to the theoretical approach found in teacher formation, many of them coming from religious seminars. A second important point of reference is the influence of Marxism and, more often than expected, a combination of these two tendencies, under the motto of what could be called a “critical-progressive” education. On the fringes of this dominant tendency — with many aspects and versions, more or less Marxist, more or less Christian, simplified to the extreme here — there is a dissemination of small groups working with philosophy of education, in dialogue with different contemporary philosophical orientations: transcendental pragmatism, psychoanalysis, hermeneutic, phenomenology, neo-pragmatism, post-structuralism, critical theory, etc. A matter that concerns many philosophers of education of diverse trends is the teaching of philosophy in many different levels.
