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Texas A&M's Philosophy for Children & Teens Program, directed by Claire Katz #AggieP4C #P4C

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#P4CTexas finally has a Facebook page! Please "like" us to follow our mission to spread #P4C throughout Texas. https://t.co/Bq65lPiuB4

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More than a typical reading exercise, the activity was part of a pilot programme supported by UNESCO to introduce Philosophy with Children and Youth (PwCY) into Thai classrooms, launched in March 2025. The approach uses stories... Read more: https://t.co/PenMa0JH87

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Amy Reed-Sandoval, founding director of the Philosophy for Children in the Borderlands program in El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, has an article out in the Los Angeles Review of Books: look here, https://t.co/BlbbrrPgSF

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A new and interesting study on the utility of P4C for promoting good health!! See: https://t.co/lRkidSm06U

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Béatrice St-Cyr-Leroux reports on the significance of children's philosophical wisdom. See that report on the innovative research coming from the Institut Philosophie Citoyenneté Jeunesse at the University of Montreal. Read here: https://t.co/EeZJh4e0Zk

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More P4C = Sofia@School!

"We, along with other parents, were excited about the program, especially when we noticed that after it began, the children were actively discussing various simple logical reasoning exercises and paradoxes, such as, ..."

Link: https://t.co/WA0lSa2fN0

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We love to see new P4C research! See this forthcoming article from Balcı and Eryılmaz: "The Impact of Philosophy for Children (P4C) Activities on Enhancing the Speaking Skills of Gifted Students"

Link: https://t.co/30jIROIjQ0

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And, for some discussion of the article on the Daily Nous, see here: https://t.co/9KIpRAUJaD

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"Philosophy could help pupils discuss hard topics such as Gaza war" – Daniel Kebede, the general secretary of the National Education Union.

https://t.co/SwLCIkNk98

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Wow! Creighton University has sent P4C students to China! "Student leader Barry, who states, 'P4C is an incredibly rewarding program. Because of the kids’ wonder, each lesson is new and challenging for you and for them, and sometimes it is very rewarding.'" ->

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A local article on experimental education and one of "the first experimental classes of philosophy for children in the United States." Check it out:

https://t.co/zxsofBnfPu

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News from Macedonia: "Philosophy as a free elective subject in the fourth, fifth or sixth grade of the next academic year" informed by P4C principles!!

Read here: https://t.co/iXSeOJhHwJ

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Sophie’s World: A Graphic Novel About the History of Philosophy by Jostein Gaarder, Vincent Zabus & Nicoby – reviewed by Scott Parker!

https://t.co/Q9GZ4F62y7

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Obituary: Kelly Rene Cowling. “‘Everyone is a philosopher,’ she encouraged. … She brought philosophy discussions into libraries, senior centers, alternative high schools and homeless shelters.”

Link: https://t.co/PlEi0VB9Rj

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"What Kids Can Bring to Conversations" by Isabel Fattal for The Atlantic.

"During most of my early adulthood, philosophy had little appeal to me, Elissa Strauss wrote in 2022. ... "Until, of course, I had my first child."

https://t.co/tipvdwSYXW

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A 2011 Discussion on P4C – between Grant Bartley from Philosophy Now talks to Peter Worley, who runs The Philosophy Shop, and John Holroyd, an A-level philosophy teacher.

See: Teaching Philosophy to Children https://t.co/zjYyOXtLMG

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Philosophy in China – Keep an eye out for Xiamen University’s Nanqiang Philosophy for Children (P4C) Research Center, founded by Jianbo Cao in 2019!!

For some notes on the center and other developments in China, see this new article in Nature: https://t.co/8Xs851NRll

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In the News! OSU's P4C program is mentioned in this article for The Lantern. As a part of "dialogue-facilitating initiatives," one experience illustrates that not every debate needs to be heated or end friendships! See here: https://t.co/TrtSQqhhr0

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For the the write-up, see here: https://t.co/Vx30617hXC

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In the press! Jean-Luc Nancy's series of "four little dialogues" "in which he delivered thoughts on Big Topics – love, God, justice, beauty – to an audience of schoolchildren." Young, for the NYT, notes that it discussing philosophy with children might be easier than with adults!