TY - CHAP
T1 - Philosophy with children as and for moral education
AU - Cassidy, Claire
N1 - Published under the J.B. Metzler imprint as part of the Part of the Kindheit – Bildung – Erziehung. Philosophische Perspektiven book series (KBEPP).
PY - 2022/1/1
Y1 - 2022/1/1
N2 - Moral education takes many guises, often taking place in schools, arguably because it is easier to socialise children into a desired way of being (Biesta, 2015). This assumes a particular view of the child, one that sees her as an entity to be moulded into what she will become, or what society wants her to become. Lipman (2003) advocates the need for a moral education that allows children to be part of a community. Such a view is premised on a different view of the child, one that sees her as being-in-and-of-the-world (Kennedy, 2010; Murris, 2013; Cassidy & Mohr Lone, 2020). Childism, that calls for a ‘profound ethical restructuring’ of society (Wall, 2010, p.3), may offer a perspective to moral education that allows us to strive for morally educated citizens. This chapter proposes that practical Philosophy with Children, as a pedagogy of compassion, has the potential to enable children to reflect on the world in which they live, what it means to live well and to take action towards that goal.
AB - Moral education takes many guises, often taking place in schools, arguably because it is easier to socialise children into a desired way of being (Biesta, 2015). This assumes a particular view of the child, one that sees her as an entity to be moulded into what she will become, or what society wants her to become. Lipman (2003) advocates the need for a moral education that allows children to be part of a community. Such a view is premised on a different view of the child, one that sees her as being-in-and-of-the-world (Kennedy, 2010; Murris, 2013; Cassidy & Mohr Lone, 2020). Childism, that calls for a ‘profound ethical restructuring’ of society (Wall, 2010, p.3), may offer a perspective to moral education that allows us to strive for morally educated citizens. This chapter proposes that practical Philosophy with Children, as a pedagogy of compassion, has the potential to enable children to reflect on the world in which they live, what it means to live well and to take action towards that goal.
KW - philosophy
KW - children
KW - moral education
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-662-64180-4_2
DO - 10.1007/978-3-662-64180-4_2
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9783662641798
T3 - Kindheit - Bildung - Erziehung, Philosophische Perspektiven
SP - 13
EP - 28
BT - Conceptions of Childhood and Moral Education in Philosophy for Children
A2 - Figueiredo , Florian
A2 - Mendonça, Dina
PB - Springer
CY - Berlin, Heidelberg
ER -