childhood & philosophy  

david knowles kennedy,walter omar kohan

We lead off this issue of Childhood and Philosophy with a collection of testimonies, homages, and brief memoirs offered from around the world in response to the death of the founder of Philosophy for Children, Matthew Lipman on December 26, 2010, at the a... see more

daniel fisherman

Supporters of the philosophy for children movement often claim that philosophy is the ideal subject to teach children if we seek to improve their critical thinking. Claiming that only philosophy encompasses the whole of the critical thinking enterprise, ... see more

danilo augusto santos melo

Our goal is to think the emergence of creative processes of opening taking place in the teaching and learning and put in question the vertical and traditional forms of education. Our methodological approach seeks to articulate in a conceptual field the pr... see more

catarina resende

This paper reflects on the becoming-child and the contagion of bodies from an educational experiment with bodily practices of somatic education and dance, at the point where they allow the body to an opening statement of uniqueness. In conjunction with th... see more

marina marcondes machado

This work proposes to engage adult readers in a dialogue about the richness of children’s imagination. This richness is often denied and impoverished by pedagogical practices based on what the author refers to as adults’ “strictly defined realism.” Early-... see more

márcia buss-simão

This essay is the result of reflections, readings and discussions on a compulsory subject for a doctorate in education. In reflections woven search yourself a chance to give the term a broader meaning care that 'caring for the body' aiming thereby problem... see more

arianne hecker

During 2010 we held our meetings with two groups of five years old girls and boys, at the “Jardín Nº 21” of El Bolsón, Río Negro, Argentina. Other members of the research staff, that we have created a year ago in order to expand the experience of philsoph... see more

diego di masi

The article presents an initial discussions held at the end of the project of citizenship education called Poli§ofia. In the project Poli§ofia the Municipal Council of the Children in the town of Rovigo and the counselors’ classes had been converted into ... see more

maria rita petitti

The article displays the experience of the activation of a community of philosophical inquiry made up of persons with vision disability (blind and partially sighted people) together with sighted persons, starting from the idea, through the theoretical sup... see more

rita afonso pedro

It’s about a reflection resulting of the practice philosophy with children I had in about four years work, with kids and young people between 4 and 18 years old, immigrants and sons of immigrants from Cape Verde, in “Cova Moura” suburbs, being around Li... see more