Philosophy With Children as a Speculative Method

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Abstract

The paper draws on a two-year research study in one elementary school in Toronto, Canada at which research-creation methodologies are used to explore the integration of a Non-Canonical Philosophy with children (NCP). NCP is a kind of philosophy based primarily on ideas from non-Western philosophy, and which values affect and emotion just as much as reasoning and argumentation. Within this paper I employ NCP as a conceptual and methodological tool, and argue that this speculative approach enables a more inclusive conception of philosophy to be explored with children in a diverse school in Toronto.

Author

• Nikki Rotas, Western University