The ICPIC community is once again delighted to offer you the opportunity of taking part in its Biennial essay competition. This is a wonderful way for each of us to share professional insights, experiences and research and for ICPIC to offer recognition to the outstanding work people are doing in this field. Full details are set out below, including the procedure of submission and time frame. Please also encourage your colleagues and students (undergraduate and graduate), practitioners and researchers within the P4C communities of which you are part, to take up the opportunity of submitting an essay for this award.
Best Wishes
Dr. Jen Glaser, ICPIC President, on behalf of the ICPIC Executive Committee
For information about submission for the 2009 Essay Award - follow the link below to "read more"
New Issue of Childhood & Philosophy Childhood & Philosophy Volume 4 Number 8 has just been published online. To see the Table of Contents click here
This issue is the first to be published since our move to a new platform, which enhances the accessibility and readability of the journal. It includes papers in four languages on: . • the relationship between literature and philosophy with children, . • representations of the child in art, . • community of philosophical inquiry with teenagers, . • moral education through the discussion of dilemmas, . • the social importance of the concept in John Dewey’s work.
All papers include abstracts in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. In addition...
The ICPIC conference will be preceded by a pre-conference marking 150th anniversary of John Dewey’s birth, to be held in Naples on June 30th and July 1st .*
The ICPIC Conference in Padua focuses on the evaluation of the complex thought.
Thinking aloud Philosophy and democracy in schools
Conference in Reykjavík, Iceland February 27th and 28th 2009
Call for Papers
We invite scholars to submit proposals for papers on any topic related
to philosophy in schools. Papers should be 20 minutes in length. The focus of the conference will be on the status of philosophy in the schools in the Nordic-Baltic area but teachers and philosophers from all over the world are welcome to participate in a variety of ways. Further information about the conference is available online.
THE EXTENDED DEADLINE for submissions for proposals is January 25th 2009.
The Northwest Center for
Philosophy for Children in Seattle, Washington, has updated its website
at http://www.philosophyforchildren.org. The site now includes more expansive sections
on lesson plans, activities for classrooms, resources, and a philosophy
for children blog, http://philosophyforchildren.blogspot.com
The American Philosophical Association's Committee on Pre-College Instruction in Philosophy has launched a new site which we invite you to visit. We plan on updating it regularly.
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