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

karin fry

Jean-François Lyotard’s description of the philosopher uses a metaphor comparing the philosopher to the child. This article traces the use of the child metaphor in relation to philosophy throughout Lyotard’s work. In general, the historical problem with p... see more

stefano oliverio

In the light of some tenets of philosophy of childhood, this paper proposes an ‘updating’ interpretation of the educational notion of repuerescentia (re-turn to childhood), offered by the Renaissance humanist Desiderius Erasmus. In particular, Erasmus’ ar... see more

silmara lídia marton,dagmar de mello e silva

This paper is the result of our work in “philosophy with children," whose goal is to bring about a philosophical experience through art, in the sense of art as the aesthetic creation of meaning for oneself and the world. Here we describe the collective an... see more

marina santi

One of the most traditional ways to teach philosophy in secondary school is a historical approach”, which takes a historicist view of philosophy and uses teaching practice based on teacher-centred lessons and textbook study by students. Only recently a de... see more

grace clare robinson

Many readers will be familiar with the power of stories to stimulate rich, ethically-focussed philosophical enquiry with communities of children and young people. This paper presents a view of the relationship between ethics and narrative that attempts to... see more

natalie fletcher

This article focuses on the notion of affectivity, which over the last few decades has become an increasingly popular lens through which to study various themes in the humanities and social sciences, notably with respect to labour. The notion of “affectiv... see more

aimberê quintiliano

The present article explores Merleau-Ponty’s philosophy, in particular his work on the ontology of perception, in a search for new educational forms. In investigating the idea of infancy, the text looks for alternate possibilities for thinking an educatio... see more

fernando bento

Philosophical practice with children allows them to build and (cumulatively) rebuild meanings while they form self-awareness, mobilizing simultaneously elements of affective, cognitive and recreational areas that are present in the sphere of their experie... see more

roberto franzini tibaldeo

I wish to carry out a philosophical inquiry into the present day intercultural public spheres. The thesis I endeavour to support is that the achievement of inclusive public spheres (namely, with respect to our European and Western experience, the accompli... see more

arie kizel

All over the Internet, many websites operate dealing with collective and personal memory. The sites relevant to collective memory deal with structuring the memory of social groups (nations, states, ethnic groups, religious groups, etc.) and they comprise... see more

mariana alvarado

In the City of Mendoza, around 1883, the newspaper El Instructor Popular published a new column in the "News" section called “The School Police.” The newspaper itself displayed a significant contextual knowledge and understanding of provincial education, ... see more