Interdisciplinary Research Laboratory on Didactics, Education, and Training

Salim Mokaddem

Philosopher, teacher, and research associate

International Technical Expert (ETI at the MEAE)
Trainer, lecturer, writer
Member of the scientific steering committee of the Brazilian international philosophy journal *Dialektiké*

Research Topics

  • childhood; philosophy and anthropology of education; secularism; values and axiology of humanism; ethics; ancient and contemporary philosophy; analysis and epistemology of scientific, medical, and metaphysical systems of thought; art and aesthetics (modern and contemporary music, film, and dance); postmodernism and nihilism; subjectivation and ethopoietic processes
  • History of ancient, medieval, and contemporary philosophy: Plato, Averroes, Hegel, Husserl, Freud, Bataille, Foucault
  • post-humanism and transhumanism; the economics of AI; pedagogy and curricula; anthropofabrication and critical thinking; professional identity and the analysis of teachers’ roles and competencies, as well as governance structures in the educational, cultural, technical, and professional fields; philosophy workshops and philosophical activities for children, adolescents, and non-professional audiences

Lessons

  • General Pedagogy (Lectures & Seminars)
  • Preparation for the oral exams of the PE and PCL competitive exams (exams analyzing professional situations, subject-specific training)
  • Workbook of Mock Oral Exams for the CRPE and MEEF 1 and 2 Master's Admission Exams
  • Interdisciplinary Core Curriculum Workshop for PLCs

Responsibilities

  • Local Head of the Teaching Unit TU , 5 General Pedagogy at the UM Faculty of Education
  • Advisor for M2 Meef theses and supervisor of internships for student elementary school teachers (PES – M2A)