19 articles in this issue
walter omar kohan,david kennedy
This is an introduction to this dossier, born from the need to foster and deepen the educational and philosophical value of the philosophy with children (PwC) movement, which includes the more classical philosophy for children program and many other forms... see more
gert biesta
Philosophical work with children – which I take as an encompassing and slightly more descriptive phrase to cover a range of educational activities with children and young people in which philosophy plays a role – occupies a rather unique place in the cont... see more
karin murris
Philosopher of Education, Gert Biesta, presented at the 18th ICPIC conference in Madrid and published his paper in this same Special Issue. In this paper, I put these in the context of current transdisciplinary conversations in academia about posthuman su... see more
darren chetty
Gert Biesta presented at the 2017 ICPIC conference in Madrid and published his paper in this Special Issue. In this short paper I attempt to bring into conversation his presentation, P4C practice, and work on racism and the Community of Inquiry. I do so b... see more
claire cassidy
This article addresses a particular element of Gert Biesta's presentation to the International Council for Philosophical Inquiry with Children conference in Madrid, 2017: the notion of grown-upness and how this might be problematic in practising Philosoph... see more
Biesta states at the beginning of his intervention that he will speak “as an educationalist” outside not only of “philosophical work with children” but “outside of philosophy”. What are the implications of these assumptions in terms of “what is philosophy... see more
laurance joseph splitter
In this paper, I first summarize what I take to be the main points of Biesta’s presentation, and proceed to offer some criticisms from the perspective of analytic philosophy. I propose an alternative framework for viewing the self as subject in the world ... see more
maughn rollins gregory,megan jane laverty
Biesta worries that Philosophy for/with Children (P4/wC) falls in with the constructivist “logic of learning,” thereby stultifying not only students’ educational experience, but their very potential as human subjects. He uses pragmatism in general, ... see more
magda costa carvalho
Looking for the normative dimension of what Gert Biesta presented in his ICPIC keynote talk took us to his 2014’s book, The beautiful risk of education. Our main ambience for thinking and questioning lies precisely on the combination between the normative... see more
marjan simenc
The article refers to Biesta's distinction between two subject positions that are related to what philosophy with children (PWC) is and what it could be. The author attempts to demonstrate – by referring to a different philosophical practice, the philosop... see more
riku välitalo
People who attended the ICPIC conference last summer were given a opportunity to consider some perspectives offered by the acknowledged scholar and educational thinker, Gert Biesta. His presentation in Madrid focused on exploring the educational significa... see more
arie kizel
This article takes issue with Gert Biesta’s lecture and my interpretation that his argument brings to the conclusion that the world is essentialist in nature. Thus, in this text, I will argue that existence “in the world” necessarily demanding the belief ... see more
félix garcía moriyón
Biesta approaches different important educational topics that deserve some clarification and exploration. To begin with, Biesta emphasizes the preferential position that subjectification should occupy in education, a thesis I agree with. Nevertheless, qua... see more
stefano oliverio
In this paper the question of the kind of dialogue that is possible between P4wC and Gert Biesta’s educational thinking is explored. The assumption – based also upon a reflection about the style of argumentation of Biesta when he addresses P4wC – is that ... see more
patricia mary hannam
Biesta raises questions about the relationship between thinking and education. He wonders whether there are dimensions of education that cannot occur through the advancement of thought alone. In this paper I consider this prospect in relation to the commu... see more
In this paper, I provide a response to papers that were written in response to the keynote I presented at the 2017 ICPIC conference in Madrid and to the written version of this keynote, published in this journal. I try to clarify what was ‘at stake’ in th... see more
marina santi
This paper is based on the content of the talk held at the ICPIC Conference in Madrid, titled “Improvising as a way of inquiring and inventing” in which the jazz metaphoe for education and philosophy is introduce. The arguments proposed are adapted to res... see more
maarten simons,jan masschelein
It is striking to notice how learning and education are treated by philosophers and political and social theorists. In our contribution we will discuss the 'social learning philosophers' (e.g.Habermas, Latour), the 'enfance-philosophers' (e.g. Lyotard, Ag... see more
david kennedy,walter kohan
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