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Full-Text Articles in Philosophy
(2021) The Story Circle As A Practice Of Democratic, Critical Inquiry, Natalie M. Fletcher, Maughn Rollins Gregory, Peter Shea, Ariel Sykes
(2021) The Story Circle As A Practice Of Democratic, Critical Inquiry, Natalie M. Fletcher, Maughn Rollins Gregory, Peter Shea, Ariel Sykes
Collected Papers of Maughn Rollins Gregory
The authors of this essay have been committed practitioners and teachers of Philosophy for Children in a variety of educational settings, from pre-schools through university doctoral programs and in adult community and religious education programs. The promotion of critical thinking has always been a primary goal of this movement. But communal practices of critical thinking need to include other kinds of democratic conversation that prompt us to see others as full-fledged persons and to be curious about howour being in community with them makes growth and self-correction possible. As we continue to experiment and innovate in new contexts we see …
Thunder Boy Jr. (2016) By Sherman Alexie, Maughn Rollins Gregory
Thunder Boy Jr. (2016) By Sherman Alexie, Maughn Rollins Gregory
Picture Books
The uplift and the burden of a name given but not chosen are keenly felt by Thunder Boy Smith Jr., the young protagonist of this thought- and emotion-provoking picture book. Like most children at one time or another, Thunder Boy welcomes some aspects of the identity his name imposes on him and chafes against others. But unlike many of us, at any age, Thunder Boy reflects on his problem with a remarkable degree of self-knowledge and self-possession. And each of the reasons he gives for wanting a different name offers a moment for philosophical reflection.
(2020) A Comunidade Da Infância, David Kennedy
(2020) A Comunidade Da Infância, David Kennedy
Collected Papers of David Kennedy
Este livro, A comunidade da infância, é uma forma encontrada para assegurar a presença de David Kennedy entre nós, que tanto o admiramos. Entretanto, resta algo que não se sabe dizer sobre David Kennedy. Como algo que escapa, que foge ao domínio da escrita. David parece nos alertar para algo que permanece infantilmente sem palavra na linguagem. David não se apresenta de imediato. Sua escrita, em voltas, por aproximações e distanciamentos, revela conhecimentos e saberes acerca da infância para tocar aquilo que infantilmente deixou de ser enunciado e escapa à apreensão adulta dos dizeres acadêmicos. Depois de afastar-se do que …
(2018) Philosophy For/With Children, Religious Education And Education For Spirituality. Steps Toward A Review Of The Literature, Maughn Gregory, Stefano Oliverio
(2018) Philosophy For/With Children, Religious Education And Education For Spirituality. Steps Toward A Review Of The Literature, Maughn Gregory, Stefano Oliverio
Collected Papers of Maughn Rollins Gregory
The authors describe the organization of a review of research literature on the relationship between Philosophy for/with Children (P4/wC) and religious education/education for spirituality (RE-EfS). They summarize a debate about whether the two are mutually enhancing or incompatible. They explain delimiting the scope of the project and present a grid of research questions used to analyze the literature. They summarize findings on how P4/wC is relevant to five categories of aims of RE-EfS: hermeneutical, cultural, socio-political, moral/spiritual, and epistemological. Many papers in the latter category promote P4/wC as a method for children’s epistemic agency in constructing their religious beliefs. Some …
(2018) Ethics Education And The Practice Of Wisdom, Maughn Gregory
(2018) Ethics Education And The Practice Of Wisdom, Maughn Gregory
Collected Papers of Maughn Rollins Gregory
Ethics education in post-graduate philosophy departments and professional schools involves disciplinary knowledge and textual analysis but is mostly unconcerned with the ethical lives of students. Ethics or values education below college aims at shaping students’ ethical beliefs and conduct but lacks philosophical depth and methods of value inquiry. The «values transmission» approach to values education does not provide the opportunity for students to express doubt or criticism of the proffered values, or to practice ethical inquiry. The «inquiry» approach to values education recognizes the need and the capacity of young people to grapple with moral ambiguity and pluralism, to confront …
(2014) Thirteen Reasons Why (2007) By Jay Asher, Peter Shea
(2014) Thirteen Reasons Why (2007) By Jay Asher, Peter Shea
Collected Papers of Peter Shea
Asher portrays plausibly the descent of a fragile person into disappointment, disillusionment, apathy, and despair. He describes clearly the process by which someone gives up on life. I cannot be sure that reading this book is safe for someone who has already started down that path. On the other hand, when I first read this book, I thought, "I must change my life. I must be more careful with people, especially people at the margins of my daily activities. I am more responsible than I generally notice." That seemed to me to be the core of what ethical thinking requires.
(2014) Dialogic Schooling, David K. Kennedy
(2014) Dialogic Schooling, David K. Kennedy
Collected Papers of David Kennedy
This paper offers a genealogy of dialogic education, tracing its origins in Romantic epistemology and corresponding philosophy of childhood, and identifying it as a counterpoint to the purposes and assumptions of universal, compulsory, state-imposed and regulated schooling. Dialogic education has historically worked against the grain of standardized mass education, not only in its view of the nature, capacities and potentialities of children (and therefore of adults as well), but in its economic, political and social views, for which childhood is understood as a promissory condition. Dialogic education is oriented to what Dewey called “a future new society of changed purposes …
Sharp, Striano, And Oliverio (2012) Philosophy For Children: An Educational Path To Philosophy, Ann Margaret Sharp, Maura Striano, Stefano Oliverio
Sharp, Striano, And Oliverio (2012) Philosophy For Children: An Educational Path To Philosophy, Ann Margaret Sharp, Maura Striano, Stefano Oliverio
IAPC Written Histories
In this interview, Ann Margaret Sharp recounts her childhood, her love of reading, and her first teaching experience tutoring neighborhood children. She describes her college and university education and her teaching experience at Historically Black Colleges. She relates her career at Montclair State College / University and her co-founding of the Institute for the Advancement of Philosophy for Children with Matthew Lipman. She discusses the need to translate academic philosophy for people outside the discipline, especially children.
10. My Name Is Myshkin: A Philosophical Novel For Children By David Kennedy, David Kennedy
10. My Name Is Myshkin: A Philosophical Novel For Children By David Kennedy, David Kennedy
Middle School Curriculum
My Name is Myshkin is a philosophical novel written with children ages approximately 10-14 in mind. The book offers a fantasy adventure plot line interweaving narrative themes of ecology, mythology, psychology, spirituality and social justice, which interplay with its more purely philosophical material. Myshkin, the ten-year old narrator of the story, engages in numerous conversations with three school friends. A few of the many questions they take up are: whether one “is” one’s body, how we can tell what is real, animals and humans, youth and age, what is alive, the origins of evil, superstition and belief, whether there is …
Remembering Gareth Matthews, Peter Shea
Remembering Gareth Matthews, Peter Shea
Collected Papers of Peter Shea
My experience with Gareth Matthews illustrates some of the ways he helped bring philosophy into the lives of children around the world. He presented a set of clear alternatives to Matthew Lipman’s approach. His work was more accessible to parents, more open to children’s literature, more free-wheeling in the range of its basic teaching strategies, and more cumulative in its methods - than Lipman’s classroom-oriented curriculum.
(2012) Economic Crises And Education: Some Philosophical Reflections, Laurance J. Splitter
(2012) Economic Crises And Education: Some Philosophical Reflections, Laurance J. Splitter
Collected Papers of Laurance J. Splitter
The ongoing series of global financial crises offers some important philosophical lessons and insights for educators. The epistemological lesson is stark: we should beware of certainty and all claims to it. Were the disposition of generic skepticism in place at all levels of schooling, then the intellectual rigidity that has characterized economics as a “discipline” would be balanced by demands to consider possible alternatives. The ethical lessons to be learned include ensuring that ethics, as a form of rigorous but openended inquiry into key questions about the kind of world in which we want to live, be included in every …
(2012) "I Must Change My Life": A Review Of Mathew Lipman’S A Life Teaching Thinking, David K. Kennedy
(2012) "I Must Change My Life": A Review Of Mathew Lipman’S A Life Teaching Thinking, David K. Kennedy
Collected Papers of David Kennedy
Born in 1923 and recently deceased after a long struggle with Parkinson’s Disease, Matthew Lipman wrote this brief but detailed autobiography just before his illness made it impossible to write any more. It begins with memories of earliest childhood and his preoccupation with the possibility of being able to fly, moves through the years in which his family struggled with the effects of the Great Depression, through his service in the military during World War II, his discovery of the joy and beauty of philosophy, his quick academic rise at Columbia University, his sojourn in Paris, and his early and …
(2012) My Name Is Myshkin: A Philosophical Novel For Children, David K. Kennedy
(2012) My Name Is Myshkin: A Philosophical Novel For Children, David K. Kennedy
Collected Papers of David Kennedy
My Name is Myshkin is a philosophical novel written with children ages approximately 10-14 in mind. The book offers a fantasy adventure plot line interweaving narrative themes of ecology, mythology, psychology, spirituality and social justice, which interplay with its more purely philosophical material. Myshkin, the ten-year old narrator of the story, engages in numerous conversations with three school friends. A few of the many questions they take up are: whether one “is” one’s body, how we can tell what is real, animals and humans, youth and age, what is alive, the origins of evil, superstition and belief, whether there is …
Guantánamo Bodies: Law, Media, And Biopower, Cary H. Federman, Dave Holmes
Guantánamo Bodies: Law, Media, And Biopower, Cary H. Federman, Dave Holmes
Department of Justice Studies Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
The idea of the Guantánamo detainee as a Muselmann, the lowest order of concentration camp inmates, contains within it important implications for the new understanding of sovereignty in the era of Guantánamo, in an age of exception. The purpose of this article is to explain the status of those who are detained at Guantánamo Bay. Stated broadly, in assessing that status, we will emphasize the connection between the altered meaning of sovereignty that has accompanied the placing of prisoners in an American penal colony in Cuba and the biopolitical status of the prisoners who reside there. More particularly, we …
Curriculum Vitae Of Gareth B. Matthews, Gareth B. Matthews
Curriculum Vitae Of Gareth B. Matthews, Gareth B. Matthews
Collected Papers of Gareth B. Matthews
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(2010) The View From Saturday (1996) By E.L. Konigsburg, Peter Shea
(2010) The View From Saturday (1996) By E.L. Konigsburg, Peter Shea
Collected Papers of Peter Shea
E.L. Konigsburg uses every word and detail in her book, The View from Saturday to provoke the reader into thinking. She is a monstrous optimist: she just expects that the reader, like her characters, enjoys thinking, is always looking for a puzzle or a problem, a thing to think about, in every corner of the world. A commentary on the necessary journeys of four children and their teacher, the novel challenges students and teachers to find the projects that will bring their own learning to life in this way. It’s a surprisingly successful strategy; one finds oneself trying to live …
(2010) Philosophical Dialogue With Children: Essays On Theory And Practice, David Kennedy
(2010) Philosophical Dialogue With Children: Essays On Theory And Practice, David Kennedy
Collected Papers of David Kennedy
David Kennedy is the foremost expert of children’s philosophical experience and practice writing today. One of the factors that makes him so will be apparent to readers of this collection of essays: the insistent probing and the astonishing range of his scholarship, which encompasses philosophy of childhood, philosophy of education, developmental psychology, cultural studies, critical theory, philosophy of subjectivity, chaos and systems theory, epistemology, and metaphilosophy. The other factor, only hinted at in this book, is the thousands of hours that Kennedy has clocked on the rugs and in the small chairs of schools, pre-schools, churches and other children’s spaces …
(2009) The Invention Of Hugo Cabret: A Novel In Words And Pictures (2007) By Brian Selznick, Peter Shea
(2009) The Invention Of Hugo Cabret: A Novel In Words And Pictures (2007) By Brian Selznick, Peter Shea
Collected Papers of Peter Shea
The Invention of Hugo Cabret is a demanding book, initiating the reader into a specific time and place, Paris in 1931, and into a set of unfamiliar ideas and metaphors. The young reader must learn his way around this world, and believe in it. I imagine a young child encountering this book, following its trail of pictures, making up a story, and then running up against a page of beautifully printed prose. The child will naturally ask, “What do these strange marks mean? How are they going to help me understand this story?” That question is an entry point into …
(2009) Caring For The “Self As One Among Others”, Laurance J. Splitter
(2009) Caring For The “Self As One Among Others”, Laurance J. Splitter
Collected Papers of Laurance J. Splitter
n this paper, I explore some underpinnings of the community of inquiry (CoI), viewed as the primary mode of classroom organization in Philosophy for Children but also as a pedagogic, personal and inter-personal framework for teaching and learning in any subject area. I will argue that the CoI provides a model of both personal and intellectual development which exemplifies how classroom teaching and learning may be seen both as forms of care and of self-care.
(2008) The Higher Power Of Lucky (2006) By Susan Patron, Peter Shea
(2008) The Higher Power Of Lucky (2006) By Susan Patron, Peter Shea
Collected Papers of Peter Shea
Ten-year-old Lucky lost her mother in a freak accident; her father is missing, and she is being cared for by her father’s former girlfriend in a tiny town at the edge of the Mojave desert. That could be the set-up for a story of loss and poverty. But this girl lives up to her name: she takes scraps of information, chance experiences, and overheard theories as resources for imagining the world and plotting her way forward. She learns how things work from the desert animals and insects, with the help of her hero, Charles Darwin. She learns survival and a …
Higher Power Of Lucky (2008) By Susan Patron, Maughn Gregory
Higher Power Of Lucky (2008) By Susan Patron, Maughn Gregory
Chapter Books
Ten-year-old Lucky lost her mother in a freak accident; her father is missing, and she is being cared for by her father’s former girlfriend in a tiny town at the edge of the Mojave desert. That could be the set-up for a story of loss and poverty. But this girl lives up to her name: she takes scraps of information, chance experiences, and overheard theories as resources for imagining the world and plotting her way forward. She learns how things work from the desert animals and insects, with the help of her hero, Charles Darwin. She learns survival and a …
(2006) The Pig In The Spigot (2000) By Richard Wilbur, Peter Shea
(2006) The Pig In The Spigot (2000) By Richard Wilbur, Peter Shea
Collected Papers of Peter Shea
We can learn from our words, if we listen to them and play with them and see what they contain. That’s a lesson from the outer limits of philosophy, from Heidegger and Wittgenstein and Ricoeur. But the journey of listening to our own words can’t begin with these venerable giants. It has to start with fine springboard books like The Pig in the Spigot and with good games, played for life.
(2006) Philosophy In A Crowded Curriculum, Laurance J. Splitter
(2006) Philosophy In A Crowded Curriculum, Laurance J. Splitter
Collected Papers of Laurance J. Splitter
In this key-note Address presented at the Inaugural Conference on Philosophy in Schools held in Singapore in April 2006, Splitter argues that the focus on conceptual development and dialogue makes philosophy an important part of school curricula.
(2006) Training Teachers To “Teach” Philosophy For Children, Laurance J. Splitter
(2006) Training Teachers To “Teach” Philosophy For Children, Laurance J. Splitter
Collected Papers of Laurance J. Splitter
In this seminar presented at the Inaugural Conference on Philosophy in Schools in Singapore in April 2006, Splitter enumerates considerations for models of teacher education in philosophy for children, as well as general features of teacher education that have stood the test of, time, the first and most general of which is that good training programs operate on a model of reflective practice.
(2006) Changing Conceptions Of The Child From The Renaissance To Post-Modernity: A Philosophy Of Childhood, David Kennedy
(2006) Changing Conceptions Of The Child From The Renaissance To Post-Modernity: A Philosophy Of Childhood, David Kennedy
Collected Papers of David Kennedy
In the eight essays that make up this volume David Kennedy offers provocative insights into what it means, has meant, and might mean in the future, to be a child. As we read him we feel the excitement of discovering truths that we want to think we knew all along. This book includes six essays on images of childhood and two extended reports on philosophical discussions he had with two groups of children. In each of those two reports on children’s thinking Kennedy interpolates his own reflections on the topics being discussed, on the methodology he is using, and on …
The Arguments Of Their Lives: A Role For Lives In Moral Reflection And Moral Teaching (2005), Peter Shea
The Arguments Of Their Lives: A Role For Lives In Moral Reflection And Moral Teaching (2005), Peter Shea
Collected Papers of Peter Shea
Moral philosophers and teachers of ethics generally make episodes, cases, and stories the focus of their practical reflection. In this dissertation, I investigate the possible roles of richer accounts or investigations of lives in the research and teaching of practical ethics. By giving a close reading of passages from three central philosophic texts, Mill’s On Liberty, Plato’s Crito, and Descartes’ Discourse on Method, I show how attention to richly described lives is grounded in the tradition of Western philosophic inquiry. These readings also serve as the starting points for arguments about the importance of consideration of lives …
(2005) Talking Globally, David K. Kennedy
(2005) Talking Globally, David K. Kennedy
Collected Papers of David Kennedy
Talking Globally is an annotated transcript of a discussion conducted by myself in a fifth grade classroom in a public school in an affluent suburban town in the northeast U.S. The stimulus for the discussion was a brief text, taken from Kofi Anan’s We The Peoples: The Role of the United Nations in the 21st Century, which offers a brief, vivid statistical picture of the planetary distribution of resources. In response, the students generated 14 questions, which ranged across a broad variety of topics, including the national debt, US weapons development and production, the war in Iraq, and the …
(2004) The Political And Social Ends Of Philosophy, Philip C. Guin
(2004) The Political And Social Ends Of Philosophy, Philip C. Guin
Collected Papers of Philip C. Guin
In this article, Guin responds to Walter Omar Kohan’s Presidential Address at the Tenth Conference of the International Council of Philosophy with Children, “Education, Philosophy, and Childhood: The Need to Think an Encounter” (published in Thinking: The Journal of Philosophy for Children 16(1): 4-11, attached here), in which Kohan argues that “philosophy for children is not as transformative, as revolutionary, as radical, as it is needs to be in order to make any difference in these neo-capitalistic, global times.” Guin argues, contrarily, that the education in tools of inquiry, social solidarity, and interdependent thinking provided by philosophy for children is …
Offering A Frame To Put Experience In: Margaret Wise Brown Presents Ideas As Opportunities To Very Young Children, Peter Shea
Collected Papers of Peter Shea
In this essay I discuss Margaret Wise Brown’s picture books as tools for provoking philosophic reflection in young children and as meditations on the situation of the very young child and on the reflective work of the young child at a time when language is still new and fresh. Some of her work concerns the most fundamental negotiation in personal philosophy—the negotiation of an attitude to the outside world, to those realities beyond one's control, beyond one's zone of comfort.
Hundred Dresses (1944) By Eleanor Estes, Peter Shea
Hundred Dresses (1944) By Eleanor Estes, Peter Shea
Chapter Books
Wanda Petronski was a poor Polish girl who lived with her father and brother. She had only one dress to wear to school but told the other girls in her class that she had a hundred dresses at home. Disbelieving her, those girls teased Wanda continually, until she and her family eventually moved out of town. When the class learned that Wanda had won an art award in absentia, they regretted their teasing and sent her a letter of apology, which resulted in an intriguing gesture of reconciliation. Moral development involves the moral imagination, which requires thinking oneself into the …