childhood & philosophy  

walter kohan,david kennedy

Childhood and philosophy is a journal which has been waiting to be born at least since Socrates sat down in the unique (at least for us) shelter of the 5th century bc polis and founded a discipline. The journal’s conception lies much, much later, in the f... see more

brock a. bahler

Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908–1961) not only published in the fields of phenomenology, aesthetics, politics, and linguistics, but he also lectured as professor of child psychology, which resulted in several texts specifically devoted to the child. Most nota... see more

charles bingham

In this article, I contextualize the community of inquiry approach, and Philosophy for Children, within the current milieu of education.  Specifically, I argue that whereas former scholarship on Philosophy for Children had a tendency to critique the ... see more

megan lee

Considerable ferment exists around the changing nature of children’s play and its place in contemporary childhood. Traditional perspectives on early childhood research have tended to trivialize and obscure the possibilities inherent in children’s ways of ... see more

margaret joan macdonald,warren bowen

The goal of our work has been to better understand how Engaged Philosophical Inquiry (EPI) can be used with young children (age 4) on topics related to our local forest environment as part our foundation curriculum on sustainability (MacDonald, in press).... see more

daniel john anderson

The role of the facilitator within Communities of Philosophical Inquiry (CPI's) has often been allocated to structuring group interactions and/or affirming participants' contributions. In this paper, however, it will be argued that facilitators must take ... see more

jennifer a. vadeboncoeur,claire alkouatli,negar amini

In communities of inquiry, dialogue is central as both the means and the outcome of collective inquiry. Indeed, features of dialogue—including formulating and asking questions, developing hypotheses and explanations, and offering and requesting reasons—ar... see more

karen mizell

The Community of Inquiry (COI) is a unique discourse model that brings adults and children together in collaborative discussions of philosophical and ethical topics. This paper examines the potential for COI to deepen children’s moral and intellectual und... see more

parmis aslanimehr

This paper offers a critical exploration of the Philosophy for Children (P4C) movement, which aims at the expansion of critical, creative and caring thinking skills in students through philosophical dialogue. It describe that such a practice can motivate ... see more

vanya kovach

This paper responds to the concern that many novice Philosophy for Children facilitators have about how to ensure that students’ discussion is philosophical. Two ways of addressing this concern are outlined, and the second of these is identified as the ap... see more

mahboubeh asgari,barbara weber

Research has shown that “no use” drug education programs, with the objective of scaring or shaming youth into abstinence, have not been effective in addressing problematic substance use. The ineffectiveness of such scare tactic approaches has led program ... see more

edwige chirouter

Raising philosophical issues is not an adult's prerogative. At a very young age, children wondering at the world around them start asking questions about life, death and human relations. To use G. Deleuze's word, a child is the "idiot" par excellence, the... see more