Dialogues with Children

by Gareth B. Matthews

Robert Coles (Foreword)

0 ratings • 0 reviews • 0 shelved
Book cover for Dialogues with Children

Bookhype may earn a small commission from qualifying purchases. Full disclosure.

Every week for a year, a professional philosopher and eight children at a school in Edinburgh met to craft stories reflecting philosophical problems. The philosopher, Gareth B. Matthews, believes that children are far more able and eager to think abstractly than adults generally recognize. This engaging book has profound implications for education and for our understating of the range of relationships between adults and children. With the example of these dialogues Matthews invites parents, teachers, and all adults to be open to those moments when they can share with children the pleasures of joint philosophical discovery.
  • ISBN10 0674202848
  • ISBN13 9780674202849
  • Publish Date 1 December 1992 (first published 11 October 1984)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Harvard University Press
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 121
  • Language English