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 5 th century bc polis and founded a discipline. The journal’s conception lies much, much later, in the ... see more

césar leite

This article search, from a situation of classroom, to interpret the reality of the processes of felt learning and constitution of a child in initial phase of acquisition of the written language. This passage will be constructed from the notion of similar... see more

tyson lewis

In this excerpt Giorgio Agamben analyzes the relationship between childhood, play, and signification. Importantly, he argues that children play a unique role in social renewal precisely because of their precarious location between death and the political... see more

théodoropoulou hélèna

In the Greek educational mechanism, the teaching of philosophy remains marginalized. On the other hand, a whole range of educational programs (for example, those of environmental education, education for democracy, e.t.c.) seem to be imbued with philosoph... see more

maría elena madrid

Throughout the world there exist communities of extreme poverty in which children do not have access to school and hardly benefit from childhood rights established by the United Nations. The community of inquiry is a philosophical practice that allows us ... see more

lúcia helena pulino

In this article, presented at the Colloque sur nouvelles pratiques philosophiques (Unesco-Paris, November, 2006), we offer an introduction to the Aion Space, an research extension project of the University of Brasilia, DF, Brasil. AION constitutes a space... see more

marina santi

This study deals with an exploratory research about understanding of art in students of different age, grades and kind of schools attended. In particular, we analysed how beliefs and reflections about art and aesthetical experiences expressed during a cro... see more

gabriel arnaiz

This article describes the evolution of diverse group philosophical practices from their origins (Socratic dialogue, Philosophy for Children), in which a uniform methodology dominates, to actuality (Philosophy with Children, Philosophical Cafes, or the Ne... see more

fabiana cortes carvalho

Of Jewish-German origin, Jona Oberski was born in Amersterdam. During the Nazi rule that coincided with her childhood she was arrested by the Germans and deported to the Bergen-Belsin concentration camp after having also spent time in the Westerbork camp.... see more

stefano scarpa

The present investigation directs itself towards the individualization of a possible area of intersection between the Philosophy for Children curriculum and the world of Kinetic Sciences? This trajectory follows two lines of inquiry. The principal arises ... see more