childhood & philosophy  

arie kizel

From its inception, philosophy for/with children (P4wC) has sought to promote philosophical discussion with children based on the latter’s own questions and a pedagogic method designed to encourage critical, creative, and caring thinking. Communities of i... see more

peter paul elicor

In this paper, I offer a preliminary sketch of a culture-enabling Philosophy for/with Children practice. It is an approach to engaging philosophically with children that aims to encourage the exercise of critical reflection at the level of their... see more

vanise dutra gomes,paula alexandra vieira

In the call from papers from childhood & philosophy we hear an invitation to philosophize. But what does such an invitation mean? In what ways does an invitation or (re) invitation to philosophize encourage us to suspension our accepted meanings and empow... see more

joanna haynes,karin murris

Responding to the invitation of this special issue of Childhood and Philosophy this paper considers the ethos of facilitation in philosophical enquiry with children, and the spatial-temporal order of the community of enquiry. Within the Philosophy with Ch... see more

eduardo rezende melo,flavia inês schilling

The article, as part of a broader reflection on the criticism of the right to development and its impact on the modes of legal and political subjectivation of children and adolescents, questions the child's condition as a subject without speech, or a spee... see more

carlos skliar,daniel brailovsky

The following text aims to pose the question provoked by the of discrepancy between infancy as defined in the work of Jean-Francois Lyotard and childhood per se, and to do so in the epochal context of an educational temporality governed by the attributes ... see more

clarisse leseigneur

Due to the obvious and widely studied Deweyan foundations in the educational program elaborated by philosopher Mathew Lipman, Philosophy for Children (P4C) is often presented as a continuation of Dewey’s democratic ideal, as a mode of associated living. I... see more

zach dewitt,emi kingan

This paper introduces Augusto Boal’s theatre practices, specifically forum theatre, to the Philosophy for/with Children [P4wC] movement. By connecting Boal’s pedagogy with P4wC, we show how forum theatre techniques can empower child-participants to physic... see more

stephan malta oliveira,luísa azevedo damasceno,nathalie emmanuelle hofmann,letícia azevedo damasceno,cecília albuquerque reynaud schaefer,alba cristina martins da silveira

The aim of this article is to investigate and discuss the notions of difference and representation in Emmanuel Levinas and Gilles Deleuze, articulating such notions through the example of a university extension project involving the formation of a musical... see more

tiago almeida,luciano bedin costa

This article has a double objective that aims to situate, theoretically and empirically, children's cartography as a research methodology. In a first movement, we will situate children's cartography in its epistemological and philosophical bases, having a... see more

theresa magdalen giorza,karin murris

Critical posthumanism is an invitation to think differently about knowledge and educational relationality between humans and the more-than-human. This philosophical and political shift in subjectivity builds on, and is entangled with, poststructuralism an... see more

gonzalo santiago rodriguez

This paper recounts the experience of a community of inquiry in a Philosophy with Children´s workshop directed at teacher training students. The workshop experience is documented in the form of pedagogical narrative, a practice-training-research strategy ... see more