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This chapter narrates the experience of educational philosophy the author undertook with Korean children at a Philosophy Camp in Seoul. After describing this experience, the chapter considers the meaning of doing philosophy with children everywhere, and questions some purposes commonly affirmed for this practice, in educational discourse: (a) education for citizenship; (b) forming people capable of an (intelligent) adaptation to the labor market; (c) something enjoyable in itself, which does not require other justification.
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© 2014 Walter Omar Kohan
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Kohan, W.O. (2014). Philosophizing with Children at a Philosophy Camp. In: Philosophy and Childhood: Critical Perspectives and Affirmative Practices. Palgrave Pivot, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137469175_7
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