childhood & philosophy  

david kennedy,walter omar kohan

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

fernando bárcena

It is not the “easiness” to learn — the fact that we are used to do it — that justifies thinking in education, but the experience of its difficulty. This is the root of the argument I pretend to develop in this text. It is a reflection that has as support... see more

julio groppa aquino

Setting forth from some of Foucault's theoretical and methodological premises, this paper aims at problematizing the contemporary discursive automatisms imposed on childhood, which endow it with an aura of bliss and consecrate it with the role of sowing a... see more

carlos skliar

Childhood, ours and the world’s one, as it has been seen for centuries by the humanist ideal doesn’t exist, is gone, hardly will return, perhaps never have existed. This soul without language, aphasic, tottering, wrecking, stunned, mismatched, collector, ... see more

fabiana fernandes ribeiro martins

In this essay we aim to present a brief philosophical study about learning by turning against the tendency of some pedagogical discourses that conceive of learning as a second plane figure in the binomial: teach-learn. Our hypothesis is that this happens ... see more

marie-france daniel,mathieu gagnon

One of the fundamental objectives of Philosophy for Children (P4C) is the cognitive development of elementary and secondary school pupils. In this text, we examine to what extent the age of the children and the number of years of praxis in P4C influence t... see more

christopher phillips

In the last 16 years, I have travelled extensively to engage with diverse others in Socratic inquiry. These 'Socrates Café' gatherings often bring together people of vastly disparate backgrounds and experiences and ages who nonetheless have a shared striv... see more

leoni maria padilha henning,robson carlos lopes

This article proposes to develop a reflection on the problems, limits and possibilities of teaching philosophy, considering the relationships between philosophy and education, especially through Matthew Lipman’s perspective. To undertake this reflection, ... see more

matthew victor schertz

At the advent of the common school era in the United States members of the Transcendentalist Club directly challenged Lockean pedagogy and traditional, dogmatic religious instruction in favor of a dialogically-driven moral education experience that harken... see more

maria teresa santos

Philosophy for Children (PfC) stands in an important place inside Practical Philosophy, in virtue of the central role that critical thinking about what is essential in the human activity has in it. In Portugal, there is a significant set of teachers that ... see more

rosana aparecida fernandes,josé menna oliveira

Schizoid walks, broken, split, a bit of air, wind, roads, and steps suggest a learning, a friendship, memories, confabulations, becoming, secrets of travelers from different tribes. And all a diagrammatic is conceived to capture the relations between stre... see more