childhood & philosophy  

walter omar kohan,david knowles 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

claire cassidy

Philosophy with Children, in all its guises, aims to engender philosophical thinking and reasoning in children. Much is written about what participation in philosophy might do for children academically and emotionally. What is proposed here is that by a... see more

luca mori

This article presents an approach to doing philosophy with children through thought experiments, by focusing on one in particular concerning founding a utopia. Describing the group’s practice and the role of philosophy in the dialogic learning process pro... see more

mathieu gagnon,nicole tremblay,catherine dumoulin,pier-charles boily,étienne bouchard

Schools located in underpriviledged areas have to deal with different factors, like the dropout rate among students and teachers; the culture of action, the culture of oral and a «carpe diem» culture; the low literacy rates; the type of children's knowled... see more

márcia buss-simão

The present text attempts to construct a dialogue between Philosophy for Children and Childhood Education. Beyond its theoretical contribution, it explores their connections in observed situations during a doctoral research project in which the relations ... see more

susanne westman,eva alerby

The children of today live in a time when the images of themselves and their childhood, their needs, interests, and skills, are discussed, researched, challenged, and changed. Childhood, education and educational settings for young children are to a great... see more

aimberê quintiliano

In this article, we will study the constitution of the subject as described by Foucault in L’Herméneutique du Sujet and we will try to establish the relation between this constitution and the political gesture that irrupts in the every day life, which set... see more

mariana alvarado

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a teacher in the province of Mendoza, C. N. Vergara (1859-1929) underwent a series of experiences in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in a Republic school—that is a school animated by ideals of political solid... see more

nadia stoyanova kennedy

In this paper, I discuss the social philosopher Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of habitus, and use it to locate and examine dispositions in a larger constellation of related concepts, exploring their dynamic relationship within the social context, and their co... see more

conceição gislane nóbrega lima de salles

The attempt to convene a discussion about childhood suggests a plurality of educative issues and raises important problems in the context of basic education. To recognize children in their specificity, and to engage and encounter them beyond the discourse... see more

lisete bampi,miriam telichevesky

Encounter is the keyword or, perhaps, its strange intention: the impossibility of expressing an experience that certain classification modes, or traditions, hinder us from seeing. It is the experience that resists the accomplished and begins a recognition... see more