Nancy Vansieleghem & David Kennedy 
Philosophy for Children in Transition [PDF ebook] 
Problems and Prospects

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 MERÇON 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

Nancy Vansieleghem is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the
Department of the Foundations of Education at Ghent University. In
her work, she explores alternative forms of educational practices
and experiments in terms of actions that seek to address the forces
of the market which exploit educational projects increasingly as
consumer products. She is the author of Dialogue as
Limit-Experience: A Portrait of Philosophy with Children as
Educational Project (2010).
David Kennedy is Professor of Educational Foundations at
Montclair State University, and Fellow of the Institute for the
Advancement of Philosophy for Children (IAPC). His publications
include The Well of Being: Childhood, Subjectivity, and
Education (2006) and Philosophical Dialogue with Children:
Essays on Theory and Practice (2006), as well as numerous
journal articles on philosophy of childhood and on theory and
practice of community of philosophical inquiry with children.