childhood & philosophy  

david knowles 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

walter omar kohan

In this paper, we present a compendium of excerpts of Platós dialogues on childhood. We have collected the major references to children and childhood through Plato’s opus, and divided them between those categorizations of children which can be as small as... see more

juliana merçon

The following lines will tell you a little about the Philosophy in Schools Project. Telling hi/stories is a way of making something be known. So I would like to share some history of the past, some history of the present of the Philosophy in Schools Proje... see more

diego antonio pineda

What I propose to present with this text are some few observations and reflections, some of them even a bit marginal to a much more extensive work I have been developing in the last six years: the translation and cultural adaptation for the Spanish-speaki... see more

pierre lebuis

As the responsible agent for teacher training in the framework of various research projects on the Philosophy for Children program in Quebec, and having facilitated many discussions with the focus on primary and secondary levels of education, the observat... see more

bernardina de sousa leal

Childhood has been historically and socially linked to the idea of lack, absence, or incompleteness. This understanding has led to the consequent idea that the adult universe could fill it--complete it with what it is supposedly missing. Historically spea... see more

pedro pagni

In recent years, one can observe an increasing instrumentalization of education, evident in the frantic search by teachers for new methods and techniques offered by the publishing industry or established by government policies. It can also be observed tha... see more

gabriele cornelli

Despite all the recent attempts to rescue and to place it at the center of political and academic attention, childhood remains on the periphery of the "serious" world of adults concerns. It is a fact that does not need, I think, further evidence than thos... see more

rené schérer

This paper delivers a critique of ?pedagogy? as currently understood, and opposes to it a more neutral concept, viz ?education.? It argues that although certainly children should be educated, it is not a necessary or universalizable claim that it must be ... see more

michel tozzi

This colloquium was organized in partnership with the Bureau des Innovations de la Direction de l?Enseignement Scolaire and the academic coordinators of the Academies of Montpellier, Caen and Creteil. The General Inspectorate of Philosophy was invited to ... see more

george alexander ghanotakis

The WRATEC model offers a toolbox of effective strategies for helping teachers conduct a community of inquiry in the classroom, through structured discussion. WRATEC facilitates teaching and learning through a self-corrective framework by integrating the ... see more

elfriede billmann mahecha

Group discussions in general can be viewed as a representation of everyday social interactions in which opinions, attitudes and values are communicated. Group discussions with children, who also constitute a real group in everyday life, thus provide us w... see more

walter omar kohan

Extracts from the literature about childhood.