14 articles in this issue
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
gilles abel
On the occasion of the 30th birthday of the philosophy for children movement, it may be appropriate to ask about the status of philosophical discussion with children, both in its theoretical foundations and in its practical implications. Assuming that the... see more
nicolas go,floriane chodat
Doing philosophy in school poses two main problems: first, to determine what are the educational conditions in which children (but perhaps adult beginners also) can learn to exercise critical thinking; and secondly, to determine under which conditions the... see more
cristina rochetti
Our constitution of the meaning of childhood is stretched between the voracity with which the market demands consumers and skilled labor and our good intentions for a better future. To pose the question of childhood constitutes a necessary step towards un... see more
barbara weber
This paper aims to show how certain theories about children disregard the innovation and peculiar otherness of children’s thoughts and actions. By overlooking these qualities, we usurp the space of the future, which does not belong to us, but to the next ... see more
klaus zierer
Philosophy for Children is in vogue--in Germany, in Europe, in nearly the whole world. Closer consideration reveals that Philosophy for Children is not always used as a clear and distinct didactical-methodological term. Sometimes it seems like a fashion w... see more
tânia mara pedroso müller
In defining the concept ?abnormal,? Michel Foucault revealed the consolidation of a complex and self-functioning network of control, distribution and monitoring mechanisms and social roles and requirements, — a maelstrom into which the child so defined is... see more
leoni maria padilha henning
The present article is an analysis of the initial reception of and later accommodation to Matthew Lipman's Philosophy for Children program in Latin America (LA), beginning with his major philosophical characteristics as a pragmatist, then tracing the way ... see more
matthew lipman
"Notes toward a metaphysic of wonder" is the outcome of a "Reciprocal Inquiry" in which Leoni Henning and I participated. In our correspondence, we moved very fast: I thought each of us surprised the other. As a result, I found myself writing about astoni... see more
joanna haynes
Events in teaching often bubble up and demand attention because they stay with us long after the moment has passed, causing us to revisit and recreate them, perhaps to ask ourselves whether we might have responded differently. Deeper reflection and wider ... see more
sara liptai
Philosophical inquiry in the UK has taken a somewhat different route from that in the US and various parts of Europe. Practitioners in the UK tend to use a great deal of home-grown materials instead of the IAPC books. They also rely on a range of philosop... see more
sergio andrade
This paper describes the Project Filosofar con Niños, developed in Cordoba, Argentina, and functioning since 1995. It is an ongoing pedagogical and speculative experience that seeks to establish a research line in primary school education. This paper refe... see more
pina montesarchio
In the project described here students in the third year of an Italian primary school worked together to dramatize a philosophical dialogue. It was based on revisiting Plato’s Symposium. The philosophy group dramatized the friends meeting at Agathon’... see more
jan lantier
La première partie du livre, Apprendre à penser par soi-même, donne la parole à Matthew Lipman lui-même. Sa contribution date de 1993 mais elle n’a pas pris une ride et surtout elle n’est plus accessible au public francophone aujourd’hui. Matthew Lipman y... see more