Full Description
Bringing together the first-ever anthology of the scholarship of the late American philosopher of education Matthew Lipman, this volume provides a critical assessment of his work and his contribution to the philosophy for children movement.
This fascinating collection identifies six areas of Lipman's scholarship where he produced his most focused work: philosophy as education for reasoning, pre-college philosophy curriculum, philosophy as education for democracy and social justice, pragmatism and education, social psychology, and educational reform. In each section, established scholars select pertinent essays of Lipman and review his scholarship with original critical assessments. Through these thematic sections, the book encourages reflections and critical evaluations of Lipman's scholarship considering new developments in the field of philosophy of education.
Following on from works examining the roles of Ann Margaret Sharp and Gareth B. Matthews, the book will be essential reading for academics, researchers and post-graduate students in the fields of philosophy of education, philosophy of childhood and educational psychology.
Contents
Contents
Series editor introduction
Acknowledgements
Contributors
About the Editors
INTRODUCTION
Matthew Lipman: Philosophy as education
Megan Jane Laverty and Maughn Rollins Gregory
Natural Obligation, Natural Appropriation
Matthew Lipman
Email to Walter Kohan
Matthew Lipman
PART I
Matthew Lipman on Philosophy as Education for Reasoning
1 Matthew Lipman's double dialogue: Logic and critical thinking from classroom to disciplinary communities
Mark Weinstein
2 Promoting better classroom thinking
Matthew Lipman
PART II
Matthew Lipman on Dramatizing Philosophy
3 Matthew Lipman and the curricular philosophical novel
Steve Williams
4 The grounding of belief: St. Thomas, Hume, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche
Matthew Lipman
5 Teachers and texts: The springs of inquiry
Matthew Lipman
PART III
Matthew Lipman on Philosophy as Education for Democracy
6 Reconstructing philosophy for children as social justice education
Gilbert Burgh and Simone Thornton
7 The contributions of philosophy to deliberative democracy
Matthew Lipman
PART IV
Matthew Lipman on Social Psychology in Education
8 Lipman's "great experiment:" From early theoretical influences to contemporary educational research and practice
Alina Reznitskaya and Nadia Stoyanova Kennedy
9 Squaring Soviet theory with American practice
Matthew Lipman
10 The Vygotsky touch
Matthew Lipman
PART V
Matthew Lipman on Educational Reform
11 Dramatizing the school through philosophy: Matthew Lipman as an educational reformer
Stefano Oliverio
12 The educational role of philosophy
Matthew Lipman
Afterword
Walter Omar Kohan
