Validation of a questionnaire on teachers attitudes towards philosophy with or for children

Abstract

The development of critical, reflective, ethical and supportive thinking is an educational purpose linked to today's society, but are teachers prepared for it? The purpose of this research is to design and validate an instrument that allows analyzing the attitudes of teachers when carrying out philosophy practices with and for children in the classroom, with the aim of developing critical thinking and values. The invited sample was made up of 1,312 educational centers in the Autonomous Community of Galicia, from which 168 responses were obtained, which implies a 6.95 margin of error and a 95% confidence level. The data obtained has been analyzed using the IBM SPSS Statistic version 22 software, first by means of Exploratory Factor Analysis and Varimax rotation to minimize the number of variables with high saturations in the factors found, and secondly, the internal consistency of the instrument was calculated through the analysis of the Cronbach's Alpha reliability coefficient. It is concluded that the version of the instrument made up of 31 Ítems and four dimensions presents good validity and reliability that demonstrate that the model is consistent and coherent with the starting theoretical assumptions