Philosophy for children in transition: problems and prospects

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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 and Philosophy to be Childish (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 the Interface between Reason, Passion and Sensation (BARBARA WEBER) 5. Transindividuality and Philosophical Enquiry in Schools: A Spinozist Perspective (JULIANA MERCON 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. The Provocation 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 with Children 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