childhood & philosophy  

walter omar 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

anya r. topolski

Due to the intersection of world history and biological boundaries Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) sadly never had the opportunity to experience maternity; nonetheless, this did not prevent her from writing, with passion and promise, about the miraculous respon... see more

leoni maria padilha henning

The central theme about which this article deals with is “caring”. Departing from a presentation that brings up the problematic, we seek to suggest the amplitude and complexity of the theme in order to, afterwards, taking it closer to education, then arri... see more

maria regina maciel

The leading role of childhood has been highlighted today. With this aim, this article intends to assert it from the notion of "childish". This concept is understood here as that what does not develop, however creates. Our point of view can be sustained, m... see more

laura viviana agratti

This paper asserts that teaching philosophy is a philosophical problem, one which entails a concept of philosophy as an activity that denaturalizes the obvious, and far from stabilizing meanings, displaces them. In this way it inquires into and queries th... see more

paula ramos de oliveira

Writing about philosophical practice with children requires a memory of the body, a body that holds on to what is important to itself. My memory begins with my contact with the ideas of Matthew Lipman and the new ideas brought by his words, and continues ... see more

eva marsal,takara dobashi

One of Kant’s famous questions about being human asks, “What may I hope?” This question places individual life within an encompassing horizon of human history and speculates on the possibility of perspectives beyond death. In our time mortality is general... see more

elenice onofre

The current paper intends to consider the role of schools in prison. Its aim is not only to understand how students and teachers see it, but also try to find ways of improving the quality of life for those deprived of freedom. The nature of the study is q... see more

samia nascimento sulaiman,virgínia talaveira valentini tristão

Environmental education is an educational proposal that seeks a change of habits, attitudes and social practices for a solution to the framework of socio-environmental degradation. Despite the strategies proposed by the Brasilian National Curriculum, the ... see more

mariane inês ohlweiler,zulmira newlands borges

Based on gender studies and on post-structuralism, the purpose of this article is to analyze the power relations concerning sexual diversity present in the school space. The analyzed data emerged from discussion groups of teachers of basic and fundamental... see more

maria carolina da silva

This article seeks to analyze the curriculum activities developed in two schools that participate in the Integrated School Program in the municipality of Belo Horizonte, Brazil. This Program extends the school journey of students of the Basic Education cl... see more