Academic Reading List

Books and Articles

 

  • Astington, Janet Wilde, 1993, The Child’s Discovery of the Mind Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
  • Cam, Philip, 1995, Thinking Together: Philosophical Inquiry for the Classroom, Sydney: Primary English Teaching Association and Hale & Iremonger.
  • Cam, Philip, 1993 (1994, 1997), Thinking Stories 1, 2, and 3: Philosophical Inquiry for Children, Sydney: Hare & Iremonger.
  • Cam, Philip, 2006, 20 Thinking Tools, Camberwell, Vic.: Australian Council for Educational Research.
  • Cam, Philip, 2012, Teaching Ethics in Schools, Camberwell, Vic.: Australian Council for Educational Research.
  • Costello, Patrick J.M., 2000, Thinking Skills and Early Childhood Education, London: David Fulton Publishers.
  • Costello, Peter R. (ed.), 2012, Philosophy in Children’s Literature, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
  • DeCesare, Tony, 2012, “Contributions of High School Philosophy to Ethical and Democratic Education,” Teaching Ethics, 13(1): 1–16.
  • DeHaan, Chris; MacColl, San; and McCutcheon, Lucy, 1995, Philosophy With Kids, Books 1–4, Melbourne: Longman.
  • Dewey, John, 1991, Reconstruction in Philosophy in John Dewey, the Middle Works, 1899–1924, vol. 12, Jo Ann Boydston (ed.), Carbondale: Southern Illinois Press.
  • Ennis, Robert, 1987, “A Conception of Critical Thinking–With Some Curriculum Suggestions,” American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Teaching Philosophy, Summer: 1–5.
  • Facione, Peter (ed.), 1989, “Report on Critical Thinking,” American Philosophical Association Subcommittee on Pre-College Philosophy, University of Delaware
  • Fisher, Robert, 1998, Teaching Thinking: Philosophical Inquiry in the Classroom, London: Cassell.
  • Gaarder, Jostein, 1994, Sophie’s World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy, New York: Harper, Straus and Giroux
  • Gopnik, A., Kuhl, and Meltzoff, A., 1999, The Scientist in the Crib: What Early Learning Tells us About the Mind, New York: Perennial Books.
  • Gopnik, Alison, 2009, The Philosophical Baby: What Children’s Minds Tell us About Truth, Love, and the Meaning of Life, New York: Picador.
  • Goswami, Usha, 1998, Cognition in Children, East Sussex, UK: Psychology Press.
  • Gregory, Maughn, 2000, “Care as a Goal of Democratic Education,” Journal of Moral Education, 29(4): 445–461.
  • Gregory, Maughn, 2008, Philosophy for Children: Practitioner Handbook, Montclair State University, NJ: Institute for the Advancement of Philosophy for Children.
  • Gregory, Maughn, 2009, “Ethics Education and the Practice of Wisdom,” Teaching Ethics, 9(2): 105–130.
  • Haynes, Joanna, 2008, Children as Philosophers, 2nd. ed., New York: Routledge.
  • Kohlberg, Lawrence, 1981, The Philosophy of Moral Development: Essays on Moral Development (Volume 1), San Francisco: Harper & Row.
  • Kennedy, David, 2005, The Well of Being: Childhood, Subjectivity, and Education, Albany, NY: SUNY Press.
  • Lewis, Lizzy and Nick Chandley (eds.), 2012, Philosophy for Children Through the Secondary Curriculum, New York: Continuum.
  • Lipman, Matthew, 1974, Harry Stottlemeier’s Discovery, Upper Montclair, NJ: Institute for the Advancement of Philosophy for Children.
  • –––, 1976, Lisa, Upper Montclair, NJ: Institute for the Advancement of Philosophy for Children (Montclair State College).
  • –––, 1988, Philosophy Goes to School, Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
  • –––, 1991, Thinking in Education, New York: Cambridge University Press; 2nd edition, 2003.
  • –––, 2008, A Life Teaching Thinking, Montclair State University, NJ: Institute for the Advancement of Philosophy for Children.
  • Lipman, Matthew (ed.), 1993, Thinking Children and Education, Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt.
  • Lipman, Matthew; Sharp, Ann M.; and Oscanyan, Frederick (eds.), 1978, Growing Up With Philosophy, Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
  • Lone, Jana Mohr, and Roberta Israeloff (eds.), 2012, Philosophy and Education: Introducing Philosophy to Young People, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishers.
  • Lone, Jana Mohr, 2012, The Philosophical Child, New York: Rowman & Littlefield.
  • Matthews, Gareth, 1980, Philosophy and the Young Child, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
  • –––, 1984, Dialogues With Children, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
  • –––, 1994, The Philosophy of Childhood, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
  • –––, 2000, “The Ring of Gyges: Plato in Grade School,” International Journal of Applied Philosophy, 14(1): 3–11.
  • McCall, Catherine, 2009, Transforming Thinking: Philosophical Inquiry in the Primary and Secondary Classroom, London: Routledge.
  • McCarty, Marietta, 2006, Little Big Minds, New York: Tarcher/Penguin.
  • McPeck, John, 1985, “Critical thinking and the ‘Trivial Pursuit’ Theory of Knowledge,” Teaching Philosophy, 8(4): 295–308.
  • Murris, K., 1992, Teaching Philosophy With Picture Books, London: Infonet Publications.
  • Partridge, F.; Dubuc, F.; Splitter, L.; and Sprod, T., 1999, Places for Thinking, Melbourne: Australian Council for Educational Research.
  • Phillips, Christopher, 2001, The Socrates Cafe, New York: W.W. Norton.
  • Pritchard, Michael S., 1991, On Becoming Responsible, Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas.
  • –––, 1985, Philosophical Adventures With Children, Lanham, MD: University Press of America.
  • –––, 1996, Reasonable Children, Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas.
  • –––, 2000, “Moral Philosophy for Children and Character Education,” International Journal of Applied Philosophy, 14(1): 13–26.
  • –––, 2005, “Ethics in the Science Classroom: Science Teachers as Moral Educators,” in Thomas Wren and Wouter van Haaften (eds.), Moral Sensibilities and Moral Education: III, London: Concorde Publishing House, pp. 113–132.
  • Reed, Ronald, 1983, Talking With Children, Denver: Arden Press.
  • Reed, Ronald, and Sharp, Ann M. (eds.), 1992, Studies in Philosophy for Children: Harry Stottlemeier’s Discovery, Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
  • Reed, Ronald, and Sharp, Ann M., 1996, Studies in Philosophy for Children: Pixie, Madrid: Ediciones De La Torre.
  • Sasseville, Michel, 1999, “The State of International Cooperation in Philosophy for Children” (UNESCO Meeting, Paris, March 1998), in Critical and Creative Thinking: The Australasian Journal of Philosophy for Children, 7(1): 57–79.
  • Shapiro, David, 2012, Plato Was Wrong: Footnotes Doing Philosophy With Young People, New York: Rowman & Littlefield.
  • Sharp, Ann M., 1991, “The Community of Inquiry: Education for Democracy,” Thinking, 9(2), 1991, pp. 31–37.
  • Sharp, Ann M. (ed.), 1994, , “Women, Feminism, and Philosophy for Children,” Thinking, 11(3/4) (Special Issue)
  • Splitter, Laurance and Sharp, Ann M., 1995, Teaching for Better thinking: The Classroom Community of Inquiry, Hawthorn, Vic.: Australian Council for Educational Research.
  • Sprod, Tim, 1993, Books Into Ideas, Cheltenham, Vic.: Hawker Brownlow Education.
  • Sprod, Tim, 2001, Philosophical Discussion in Moral Education: The Community of Ethical Inquiry, London: Routledge.
  • Sprod, Tim, 2011, Discussions in Science: Promoting Conceptual Understanding in the Middle School Years, Camberwell, Vic.: Australian Council for Educational Research.
  • Turner, Susan M. and Matthews, Gareth (eds.), 1998, The Philosopher’s Child, Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press.
  • Vanseileghem, Nancy and David Kennedy (eds.), 2012, Philosophy for Children in Transition: Problems and Prospects, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell.
  • Wartenberg, Thomas E., 2009, Big Ideas for Little Kids, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.
  • Weinstein, Mark, 1989, “Critical Thinking and Moral Education,” Thinking, 7(3): 42–49.
  • White, David A., 2000, Philosophy for Kids, Waco, Texas: Prufrock.
  • Wilks, S., 1995, Critical and Creative Thinking: Strategies for Classroom Inquiry, Armadale, Vic.: Eleanor Curtain.
  • Worley, Peter and Tamar Levi, 2011, The If Machine: Philosophical Enquiry in the Classroom, London: Continuum.