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

tyson lewis

In the following excerpts, Walter Benjamin explores the simple activities of childhood in order to find paradimactic instances of dialectic thinking and aesthetic theory. Thus reflections on childhood reveal naïve and intuitive moments of complex concept... see more

eva marsal

This essay compares the philosophical thoughts on happiness put forth in poems by Friedrich Nietzsche at the age of 12-13 with the happiness concept of Frederik, a modern secondary school student, at about the same age, who was inspired by three of Nietzs... see more

juliana merçon

Abstract: This paper finds its inspiration in the work of the seventeenth century philosopher Benedict de Spinoza. My objective is to briefly examine three crucial aspects of Spinoza’s philosophy which are not only extremely useful to our understanding of... see more

rosana fernandes sardi

Deleuze and Guattari affirm in a Thousand Plateaus that children's questions are mis-understood if they are not comprehended as question-machines (Mil Platôs, 1997, p. 42). Question-machines are understood as questions that uncoil in problems and that pur... see more

stefano oliverio

Homo videns is today’s man or woman whose knowledge-frames are shaped by the use of modern media. The passive experience (from childhood on) of an overwhelmingly image-based media can prevent children from developing a capacity for abstraction--that is, t... see more

eva marsal,takara dobashi

This paper compares the concepts of Japanese and German primary school children as they relate to the “ethics of care.” To do this we have used the research methodology of expanding and replicating an experiment to test whether the results can be intercul... see more

nadia stoyanova kennedy

This paper discusses some major similarities and differences between community of philosophical inquiry (CPI) and community of mathematical inquiry (CMI), and offers a few examples of the implementation of CMI in the context of a school mathematics classr... see more

vânia mesquita

This study attempts to describe and analyze the question of teacher formation in Philosophy for Children by focusing on two central principles: the first is that we defend the introduction of philosophy into elementary schools; the second that we place gr... see more