Performing thoughts through languages: An ethical act
Philosophizing with newly arrived allophone students in France implies a particular ethos, namely the refusal to participate in individuals’ assimilation into a dominant model by denying their uniqueness and the complexity of their biographical and socio-cultural pathways. The intent is instead to include the other (their thinking, imagination and languages) by setting up the conditions to encourage inter-comprehension and common construction, within diversity. Accordingly, the philosophy workshops run with these young people are based on a performative and interpretative approach. This posture and this practice are in line with the ethics of care, both in its understanding of vulnerability and its conception of democratic culture.