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Critical studies and proposals on the current movements of P4C across the world

  • PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE
  • 2021, (37), pp.196~230
  • DOI : 10.33639/ptc.2021..37.009
  • Publisher : Research Institute for East-West Thought
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities
  • Received : October 30, 2021
  • Accepted : November 24, 2021
  • Published : November 30, 2021

Park, Hyunjoo 1

1이화여자대학교

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ABSTRACT

This paper first examines the current patterns of Philosophy for Children(P4C) movements and researches across the world. In some countries P4C researches and movements have been influenced by IAPC model based upon pragmatism. In other countries, however, P4C researches and movements have been strongly influenced by post-modernism and post-humanism as well as IAPC model. Besides, regardless of the influences of post-modernism, most of P4C researchers stress the importance of fostering reasoning skills in P4C classes, according to my analyses of ICPIC journals. This means that despite of a variety of philosophical perspectives most of P4C researchers agree upon the importance of enhancing critical thinking skills in building P4C community of inquiry. In the end this paper propose that it is time to make a philosophical re-examination of Matthew Lipman’s model of critical thinking to integrate and regulate the current patterns of P4C in the desirable direction.

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