childhood & philosophy  

silvia demozzi,luca zanetti

A concern with children doing philosophy is inseparable from a preoccupation with childhood and asks for a redefinition of childhood itself. This exploration is at least one fundamental dimension of the group of philosophers and educators who presented th... see more

silvia demozzi,marta ilardo

The paper aims at offering a pedagogical perspective as part of the debate on philosophical practices with children, referring particularly to educational deontology matters emerging when “uncomfortable” questions (but not only) occur. Many of the questio... see more

antonio cosentino

Lipman’s curriculum of “Philosophy for Children” was the outcome of a harmonious and fruitful partnership between philosophy and pedagogy, but over the time practice shows the risk of a double fall and reduction: on the one side into the ditch of pedagese... see more

maria kasmirli

There is a paradox in the idea of philosophy for children (P4C). Good teaching starts from the concrete and particular, and it engages with each student’s individual interests, beliefs, and experiences. Preadolescents (and to some extent everyone) find th... see more

eleonora zorzi,marina santi

Improvising involves participants adopting attitudes and dispositions that make them welcoming towards what happens, even when it is unforeseen. How is the discourse on improvisation and a disposition to improvise in the community connected to the concept... see more

stefano oliverio

In this paper I take my cue from what I suggest calling “the Adamitic modernity.” By this phrase I endeavor to capture a specific ‘removal’ of childhood that occurs in the Cartesian gesture of the enthroning of Reason. By drawing upon a reading of the maj... see more

mariangela scarpini

This paper aims to focus on certain aspects of two education methods: one initiated in the first half of the twentieth century by Maria Montessori, and the other in the second half of that century by Matthew Lipman. The aim – neither comparative nor analy... see more

luca zanetti

Children ask existential questions, that is, questions about death, the meaning of existence, free will, God, the origin of everything, and kindred questions. P4/wC has the aspiration to give to children the occasion to discover and explore their question... see more

lucia scipione

Through the exercise of inquiry and thinking together, a number of studies promote philosophy at school within the dialogical context. The Philosophy for Children curriculum and other Philosophy with Children experiences all around the world spearheaded o... see more

beatriz fabiana olarieta,conceição firmina seixas silva,lisandra ogg gomes

This editorial presents ideas and discussions that were limited to the 2nd Congress of Childhood Studies: politicization and esthesias, in correlation to the current moment, initiated by a health crisis, which greatly affected childhood. We hope that the ... see more

anete abramowicz

This essay seeks to answer the questions of which children in the contemporary world have been targeted and killed "unintentionally”or "at random" by the Brazilian State. In order to understand the place of children in this “war” we rely on the work, amon... see more

sandra mara da cunha

Children and music are the theme of this article conceived as a sort of rehearsal, with the aim of thinking a musical education of childhood. Its theoretical foundations emerge from conversations between music education and childhood studies, and formed t... see more

maria tereza goudard tavares

This article derives from my participation in the II Congress of Childhood Studies: Politicizations and Aesthetics, held in September 2019, at UERJ/Maracanã. My speech entitled Childhoods, Culture and Intergenerational Relations in everyday life, was... see more

sandra regina simonis richter,márcia vilma murillo

In order to highlight the intimate relationship between imagining, drawing and making worlds, this essay questions the educational meaning of children to initiate in the action of drawing in face of the growing cultural tendency of the body being less and... see more

adriana hoffmann fernandes,helenice mirabelli cassino

This article combines thoughts about childhood, visual culture and education. It is known that we live among multiple images that shape the way we see our reality, and researchers in the visual culture field investigate how this role is played out in our ... see more

sammy william lopes

The paper addresses the problem of continuing education of teachers in early childhood education in contemporary times, asking how to elaborate formative pathways that do not focus exclusively on the models/standards of professionalization predetermined b... see more

juan pablo alvarez coronado

In Nietzschean thought there is a permanent tension between culture and life; both move, many times, in contradictory directions. According to Nietzsche, culture always wins, because it has the Apollonian dimension on its part, that is, that defined, clea... see more

paula ramos de oliveira,denis domeneghetti badia

Based on Paul Ricoeur's elaborations on the phenomenological project, this text intends to situate and problematize both the reading of “suspicion” (practiced by explanatory or reductive hermeneutics) and the “welcome” reading (practiced by understanding ... see more

daniela fossaluza

The purpose of this text is to think about how the handmade presents itself in the language of a tridimensional storytelling tapestry created and sewn into books--a technique and enterprise for the promotion of reading that originated on France and has de... see more

renato noguera

This brief Afroperspectivist study explores the articulation between the education of ethnic-racial relations and childhood studies. The generational issues of childhood are not dissociated from racialization. Therefore, racism is a phenomenon that needs ... see more

amana rocha mattos,rafael cavalheiro

This article discusses how some childhood senses have been triggered in the confrontations about the legitimacy of gender and sexuality themes in education, considering the contemporary scenario in the country. For this, we aim to analyze two practical-di... see more

beatriz corsino perez

brazil has gone through a long process of colonization that still leaves violent marks in the ways of relating to quilombola communities, producing the devaluation of their cultures and knowledge. Through colonization, the lives of quilombola children and... see more

marcos ribeiro de melo,michele de freitas faria de vasconcelos,edson augusto de souza neto

in this article, we experience the exercise of a screen ethnocartography in agency with the film Beasts of the southern wild (2012) by the director Benh Zeitlin. We tested a film experimentation that led to a renewed writing (our) ways of life. We bet on ... see more

steferson zanoni roseiro,janete magalhães carvalho

Wondering what would happen with the control logic if the ugliness take control on school, this essay uses the fabulation as a research method to produce fables of insurrection against the Capitalism. It starts from the principle that in the contemporary ... see more

peter paul ejera elicor

This article aims to map the locations of identity prejudice that occurs in the context of a Community of Inquiry. My claim is that epistemic injustice, which usually originates from seemingly ‘minor’ cases of identity prejudice, can potentially leak into... see more

morteza mhosronejad,soudabeh shokrollahzadeh

This paper investigates critically the approaches to picturebooks as used in the history of philosophy for children (P4C) movement. Our concern with picturebooks rests mainly on Morteza Khosronejad's broader criticism that children's literature has been t... see more

diego bertolo pereira,wilson alves de paiva

This text aims to perform a “fly over” the Philosophy for Children program--created by the philosopher and educator Matthew Lipman-–in order to identify certain philosophical problems that might appear there, one of them being the issue of universality. I... see more

steve williams

In this article, I report on my reading of a debate between two practitioners and scholars of philosophy with children – Karin Murris and Darren Chetty. The parts of their exchanges I have chosen to focus on relate to a children's book called Tusk Tusk by... see more

vania alarcon castillo

In this paper, two different philosophical proposals to introduce and carry out philosophy in school spaces which include the participation of children are compared, these are: Philosophy for Children (P4C), mainly developed by Matthew Lipman and Ann Shar... see more

sylvia contreras-salinas,mónica ramírez pavelic

this article has the purpose of exposing some findings deployed from the hermeneutical activity from the narratives of LGBT subjects (Lesbians, Gays, transsexuals and Bisexuals) located in a past / present, in relation to the corporality expressed in the ... see more

mauro britto cunha,jair miranda de paiva

this article seeks to approach the challenge of inventing oneself as a teacher through the eyes of childhood—a human dimension characterized by intensity, full of possibilities, connecting the movement of invention to the challenges encountered in day-to-... see more

roque farran

In this article, I intend to link four topics or essential acts of philosophical practice: listening, caring, writing and transmitting, with special attention to children--what they inspire and teach us about philosophical practice, with special attention... see more

tahereh javidi kalatehjafarabadi

This paper aims to consider the implications of Noddings’ ethics of care theory for child-friendly projects and their underlying philosophical assumptions. It is explained that this theory with its emphasis on the children’s needs and rights and, more imp... see more

oscar espinel

the inquiry into teaching in philosophy entails two different questions, namely: What does it mean to teach? And, what is understood by “philosophy”? The first of these questions constitutes the starting point of this article – product of the research pro... see more

nigel manchini

Diversos enfoques filosóficos y científicos señalan la importancia del cuerpo para los procesos educativos y la cognición en general. La suspensión de clases y virtualización de cursos debido a la pandemia de COVID-19 ofrece una ventana para investigar es... see more