Special Interest Group – Philosophy with Children and Teacher Education

Special Interest Group – Philosophy with Children and Teacher Education

Head: Arie Kizel akizel@edu.haifa.ac.il

Aims of the Group:

• Coordinate a group of scholars and practitioners who are interested in connecting Philosophy with Children and teacher education around the world and using Pw4C as a pedagogy for teaching in higher education.
• Exchange ideas about how other people are actually using, evaluating, and theorizing it and teaching about it to their students with and without enacting it.
• To serve as a group of exchanges of opinions, research, practical experience on the connection between Philosophy with Children, teacher education and teacher training throughout the two years between ICPIC’s conference.
• Initiate world-wide research into the connection between Philosophy with Children and teacher education.
• Initiate writing articles on this topic and publication of books of articles on this subject.
• Initiate meetings between researchers and practitioners from around the world at the post-conference of the bi-annual ICPIC conference in order to keep ongoing connection between them and enable further initiatives.
• To initiate longitudinal research into newly qualified teachers who have had P4C input in teacher training to see how it impacts them in their first few years of teaching.

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