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 Children today
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

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Preface
Introduction: What is Philosophy for Children, What is Philosophy with Children—After Matthew Lipman?
Chapter 1: The Experience of Childhood and the Learning Society: Allowing the Child to be Philosophical and Philosophy to be Childish
Chapter 2: Philosophy for Children and its Critics: A Mendham Dialogue
Chapter 3: The Play of Socratic Dialogue
Chapter 4: Childhood, Philosophy and Play: Friedrich Schiller and the Interface between Reason, Passion and Sensation
Chapter 5: Transindividuality and Philosophical Enquiry in Schools: A Spinozist Perspective
Chapter 6: Community of Philosophical Inquiry as a Discursive Structure, and its Role in School Curriculum Design
Chapter 7: The Provocation of an Epistemological Shift in Teacher Education through Philosophy with Children
Chapter 8: Philosophy, Exposure, and Children: How to Resist the Instrumentalisation of Philosophy in Education
Chapter 9: Philosophy with Children as an Exercise in Parrhesia: An Account of a Philosophical Experiment with Children in Cambodia
Chapter 10: Childhood, Education and Philosophy: Notes on Deterritorialisation
Chapter 11: ‘In Charge of the Truffula Seeds’: On Children’s Literature, Rationality and Children’s Voices in Philosophy
Chapter 12: Brilliance of a Fire: Innocence, Experience and the Theory of Childhood
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