Vansieleghem / Kennedy Philosophy for Children in Transition

Problems and Prospects
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4443-6228-2
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
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E-Book, Englisch, 240 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Journal of Philosophy of Education

Philosophy for Children in Transition presents a diversecollection of perspectives on the worldwide educational movement ofphilosophy for children. Educators and philosophers establish therelationship between philosophy and the child, and clarify thesignificance of that relationship for teaching and learning today.

* The papers present a diverse range of perspectives, problemsand tentative prospects concerning the theory and practice ofPhilosophy for Children today

* The collection familiarises an actual educational practice thatis steadily gaining importance in the field of academicphilosophy

* Opens up discussion on the notion of the relationship betweenphilosophy and the child

Autoren/Hrsg.

Vansieleghem, Nancy

Kennedy, David

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface (PAUL STANDISH)
Introduction: What is Philosophy for Children, What isPhilosophy with Children--After Matthew Lipman? (NANCYVANSIELEGHEM and DAVID KENNEDY)
1. The Experience of Childhood and the Learning Society:Allowing the Child to be Philosophical and Philosophy to beChildish (THOMAS STORME and JORIS VLIEGHE)
2. Philosophy for Children and its Critics: A Mendham Dialogue(MAUGHN GREGORY)
3. The Play of Socratic Dialogue (RICHARD SMITH)
4. Childhood, Philosophy and Play: Friedrich Schiller and theInterface between Reason, Passion and Sensation (BARBARA WEBER)
5. Transindividuality and Philosophical Enquiry in Schools: ASpinozist Perspective (JULIANA MERÇON and AURELIAARMSTRONG)
6. Community of Philosophical Inquiry as a Discursive Structure,and its Role in School Curriculum Design (NADIA KENNEDY and DAVIDKENNEDY)
7. The Provocation of an Epistemological Shift in TeacherEducation through Philosophy with Children (JOANNA HAYNES and KARINMURRIS)
8. Philosophy, Exposure, and Children: How to Resist theInstrumentalisation of Philosophy in Education (GERT BIESTA)
9. Philosophy with Children as an Exercise in Parrhesia: AnAccount of a Philosophical Experiment with Children in Cambodia(NANCY VANSIELEGHEM)
10. Childhood, Education and Philosophy: Notes onDeterritorialisation (WALTER OMAR KOHAN)
11. 'In Charge of the Truffula Seeds': On Children'sLiterature, Rationality and Children's Voices in Philosophy (VIKTORJOHANSSON)
12. Brilliance of a Fire: Innocence, Experience and the Theoryof Childhood (ROBERT A. DAVIS)
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Nancy Vansieleghem is a Postdoctoral Researcher at theDepartment of the Foundations of Education at Ghent University. Inher work, she explores alternative forms of educational practicesand experiments in terms of actions that seek to address the forcesof the market which exploit educational projects increasingly asconsumer products. She is the author of Dialogue asLimit-Experience: A Portrait of Philosophy with Children asEducational Project (2010).
David Kennedy is Professor of Educational Foundations atMontclair State University, and Fellow of the Institute for theAdvancement of Philosophy for Children (IAPC). His publicationsinclude The Well of Being: Childhood, Subjectivity, andEducation (2006) and Philosophical Dialogue with Children:Essays on Theory and Practice (2006), as well as numerousjournal articles on philosophy of childhood and on theory andpractice of community of philosophical inquiry with children.