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- Title
Listening to Dialogue.
- Authors
Vansieleghem, Nancy
- Abstract
In accordance with Progressivism, Matthew Lipman, introduced an educational model for renewal and change by means of the child. With his Philosophy for Children programme he wished to offer an alternative for the intellectualistic oriented education which silenced children. The answer to the search for freedom and change, Lipman finds in the symbioses between ‘Philosophy’ and ‘Children’. Philosophy expressed in critical thinking and communication, was the basis to emancipate the child from the oppression of the adult and to cause change. According to Lipman the main purpose of philosophy is to free every individual from determination. This plea is being elaborated by dialogue. The main issue of our paper concerns the question whether Lipman’s alternative ‘Philosophy for Children’ can fulfil the promise of change and freedom. To answer this question we will investigate thoroughly where dialogue and change in Philosophy for Children stand for. Finally we will propose another perspective of dialogue. A dialogue stressed on listening. Listening to how the world appears to us and how we appear to ourselves.
- Subjects
PROGRESSIVE education; CHILDREN &; philosophy; PROGRESSIVISM; CRITICAL thinking; LIBERALISM; PHILOSOPHY; EDUCATION; HUMANITIES; LIPMAN, Matthew, 1923-2010
- Publication
Studies in Philosophy & Education, 2006, Vol 25, Issue 1/2, p175
- ISSN
0039-3746
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11217-006-0008-x