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This chapter offers some reasons for doing philosophy with children, derived mainly from the testimony of children practicing philosophy in the project described in the previous chapter. This chapter focuses on a reconstruction of the idea of childhood and its educational condition, starting from the voices of children themselves.

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Kohan, W.O. (2014). (Some) Reasons for Doing Philosophy with Children. In: Philosophy and Childhood: Critical Perspectives and Affirmative Practices. Palgrave Pivot, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137469175_6

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