childhood & philosophy  

dante augusto galeffi

Considering dialogue as a fundamental philosophical experience, this paper aims to understand the possibility of a radical and emphatic dialogic practice in the formation of the educator-philosopher. “Educator-philosopher” is the term used to detach the i... see more

matthew reason

A marker of quality in a cultural experience is its enduring resonance as it engages its audience intellectually, imaginatively or emotionally. This is certainly the case with theatre that is made for adults and we should have the same ambition in theatre... see more

álvaro márquez-fernández

Thinking is to reason with sensibility. We feel the feelings with the heart (In Spanish: co-razón: co-reason), through the impulses of our rational intuitions. Whenever we think with sensibility, we do it from a place in which the feelings give rise to af... see more

giovânia costa

This article is an evaluative synthesis of my masters dissertation entitled “Body: possibilities of thinking and teaching philosophy: Philo-drama as an experience of formation”. This text proposes to think of the body in a specific relationship with philo... see more

pavel lushyn

Humanistic, authoritative and ecopsychological perspective in education or rethinking philosophy for children under globalization Abstract: The paper deals with the analysis of the buffer or transitional nature of humanistic-oriented school subjects like... see more

leoni maria padilha henning

The present work intends to focus the child in the context of what is understood of childhood today, a concept which is overlapped in the net of relations of a world geared to an exacerbated production, to the banality of knowledge and reflexive activitie... see more

pierre lauret

In his last texts, Lyotard refers to the figure of childhood through a criticism of the humanist doctrine of education, which results in an opposition between child and man. Lyotard affirms that all institutions and cultures, if they are necessary, must a... see more

michel sasseville

Christian Bobin, a French writer, talks about everything in his books. But he focuses particularly on the themes of love and childhood. This paper presents some extracts of childhood. The topic is so widely treated in his books that we had to make some ch... see more

bernardina de sousa leal

An apprenticeship of childhood: first instances The term “infancy” is usually associated with `childhood` and it seems to indicate more clearly a psycho-biologic reality in regard to an individual. In this study we wish to question this identification: t... see more

maximiliano durán

The present work intends to describe the personality of a teacher from the beginning of the XIX Century who transgressed the traditional forms of being with the other in the “School of First Letters” in South America. The article is structured in three pa... see more