Philosophy for children in transition: problems and prospects

Philosophy for Children in Transition presents a diverse collection of perspectives on the worldwide educational movement of philosophy for children. Educators and philosophers establish the relationship between philosophy and the child, and clarify the significance of that relationship for teaching and learning today. The papers present a diverse range of perspectives, problems and tentative prospects concerning the theory and practice of Philosophy for Childrentoday The collection familiarises an actual educational practice that is steadily gaining importance in the field of academic philosophy Opens up discussion on the notion of the relationship between philosophy and the child INDICE: Preface (Paul Standish).Introduction: What is Philosophy for Children, What is Philosophy with Children - After Matthew Lipman?(Nancy Vansieleghem and David Kennedy).1. The Experience of Childhood and the Learning Society:Allowing the Child to be Philosophical andPhilosophy to be Childish (Thomas Storme and Joris Vlieghe).2. Philosophy for Children and its Critics: A MendhamDialogue (Maughn Gregory).3. The Play of Socratic Dialogue (Richard Smith).4.Childhood, Philosophy and Play: Friedrich Schiller and the Interface between Reason, Passion andSensation (Barbara Weber).5. Transindividuality and Philosophical Enquiry in Schools: A Spinozist Perspective (Juliana Meron and Aurelia Armstrong).6. Community of Philosophical Inquiry as a Discursive Structure, and its Role in School Curriculum Design(Nadia Kennedy and David Kennedy).7. TheProvocation of an Epistemological Shift in Teacher Education through Philosophy with Children(Joanna Haynes and Karin Murris).8. Philosophy, Exposure, and Children: How to Resist the Instrumentalisation of Philosophy in Education(Gert Biesta).9. Philosophy with Children as an Exercise in Parrhesia: An Account of a Philosophical Experiment withChildren in Cambodia (Nancy Vansieleghem).10. Childhood, Education and Philosophy: Notes on Deterritorialisation (Walter Omar Kohan)11. 'In Charge of the Truffula Seeds': On Childrens Literature, Rationality and Children's Voices in Philosophy(Viktor Johansson).12. Brilliance of a Fire: Innocence, Experience and the Theory of Childhood (Robert A. Davis). Index.

• ISBN: 978-1-4443-5040-1
• Editorial: Wiley-Blackwell
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 232
• Fecha Publicación: 07/10/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés