Philosophy in Classrooms and Beyond

New Approaches to Picture-Book Philosophy

By: Thomas E. Wartenberg

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The contributors to this volume describe a range of programs that use picture books to teach philosophy to diverse audiences. From a pre-school program in which college students to do the teaching to a program focused on overcoming the legacy of violence and genocide in Mali in which the teachers write and illustrate their own picture books, the authors demonstrate the impact that learning philosophy has on diverse communities of young students and their teachers.

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In bringing philosophy to preschool through middle school classrooms, school boards, and NGOs, the contributors to this book demonstrate the strength and adaptability of Tom Wartenberg’s program of picture book philosophy. Perhaps even more striking than the glimpses the book provides into the philosophical depth of children are the ways in which the adults working with them come to new understandings of democracy, childhood, education and philosophy. Followers of the pioneering work of Gareth Matthews on philosophy in children’s literature, of Ann Margaret Sharp on the classroom community of inquiry, and of Matthew Lipman on philosophy in education will be delighted and informed by the varied and ingenious ways the contributors to this book have extended their legacy, guided by Wartenberg’s unique philosophical expertise and practical wisdom.