Gareth B. Matthews, The Child's Philosopher
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-04064-6 (ISBN)
Winner of the 2022 Book Award of the Philosophy of Education Society of Australasia, Gareth B. Matthews, The Child's Philosopher brings together groundbreaking essays by renowned American philosopher Gareth B. Matthews in three fields he helped to initiate: philosophy in children’s literature, philosophy for children, and philosophy of childhood. In addition, contemporary scholars critically assess Matthews’ pioneering efforts and his legacy.
Gareth B. Matthews (1929-2011) was a specialist in ancient and medieval philosophy who had conversations with young children, discovering that they delight in philosophical puzzlement and that their philosophical thinking often enriched his own understanding. Those conversations became the impetus for a substantial component of Matthews’ scholarship, from which this book features essays spanning the length of his career. Contemporary contributors to the book critically evaluate Matthews’ scholarship, showing where he broke new ground and identifying developments and debates in the fields he helped to initiate. They take up pressing challenges, including biased idealizations of childhood in children’s literature; the tensions between teaching philosophy to, and doing philosophy with young people; the merits of theorizing childhood without theorizing children; and how professional philosophy at once desires and resists a return to childhood.
This second volume in the Philosophy for Children Founders series is an important resource for philosophers, educators, and anyone interested in children’s philosophical thinking, developmental psychology, what it means to philosophize with children, the nature of childhood, and how children’s literature goes philosophical. It will guide and inspire those who share Matthews’ conviction that the impulse to philosophize begins in early childhood.
Contributors (in addition to Gareth B. Matthews): Stephanie Burdick-Shepherd, Cristina Cammarano, Claire Cassidy, Stanley Cavell, Maughn Rollins Gregory, Jennifer Glaser, Walter Omar Kohan, Megan Jane Laverty, Jana Mohr Lone, Karin Murris, Peter Shea, Susan M. Turner, Susannah Sheffer.
Maughn Rollins Gregory is Professor of Educational Foundations at Montclair State University, USA. Together with Megan Jane Laverty, he edits the Philosophy for Children Founders series, including In Community with Ann Margaret Sharp: Childhood, Philosophy and Education (Routledge, 2017). Megan Jane Laverty is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University, USA. Together with Maughn Rollins Gregory, she edits the Philosophy for Children Founders series, including In Community with Ann Margaret Sharp: Childhood, Philosophy and Education (Routledge, 2017).
Series editors' introduction
Acknowledgements
Contributors
About the Editors
INTRODUCTION
Gareth B. Matthews: A Philosopher's Life with Children
Megan Jane Laverty and Maughn Rollins Gregory
Time and Place for Philosophy
Stanley Cavell
PART I
Gareth B. Matthews on Philosophy and Children’s Literature
1 Age-Transgressive Philosophizing with Children’s Literature
Karin Murris
2 Philosophy and Children’s Literature
Gareth B. Matthews
3 The Philosophical Imagination in Children’s Literature
Gareth B. Matthews
4 Thinking in Stories
Gareth B. Matthews
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Not Now, Bernard by David McKee
The Mountains of Tibet by Mordecai Gerstein
PART II
Gareth B. Matthews on Children’s Philosophical Thinking
5 Gareth B. Matthews on the Child as Philosopher
Stephanie Burdick-Shepherd and Cristina Cammarano
6 Holiness
Gareth B. Matthews
7 Creativity in the Philosophical Thinking of Children
Gareth B. Matthews
PART III
Gareth B. Matthews on the Socratic Teacher
8 Socratic Teaching, What Can it Be?
Peter Shea
9 Socrates’ Children
Gareth B. Matthews
10 Whatever Became of the Socratic Elenchus? Philosophical Analysis in Plato
Gareth B. Matthews
PART IV
Gareth B. Matthews on Philosophy of Developmental Psychology
11 Gareth B. Matthews’ Philosophy of Psychology
Jennifer Glaser
12 Concept Formation and Moral Development
Gareth B. Matthews
13 Children, Irony and Philosophy
Gareth B. Matthews
PART V
Gareth B. Matthews on Philosophy of Childhood
14 Gareth B. Matthews: Philosophy of Childhood or Children?
Walter Omar Kohan and Claire Cassidy
15 A Philosophy of Childhood
Gareth B. Matthews
16 Introduction to The Philosopher's Child: Critical Perspectives in the Western Tradition
Susan M. Turner and Gareth B. Matthews
17 Children as Philosophers: Interview with Gareth Matthews
Gareth B. Matthews and Susannah Sheffer
Afterword
Jana Mohr Lone
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 09.02.2023 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Philosophy for Children Founders |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 560 g |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Vorschulpädagogik | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-032-04064-5 / 1032040645 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-032-04064-6 / 9781032040646 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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