Analytic teaching and Philosophical praxis


ANALYTIC TEACHING AND PHILOSOPHICAL PRAXIS Volume 39, Issue 1 (2018) 

 

Editor’s Welcome 

 
The six articles that make up the current issue of volume 

39 focus largely on the assessment or implementation of 
Philosophy for Children (P4C), with one article that looks 
at educational policies around disabled students.   

  
     The first article by Sue Lyle explores the value of P4C 
when teaching about issues of environmental sustainability 
and global citizenship. The second piece by Yan, Walters, Z. 
Wang and C. Wang provides an informative meta-analysis 
of the effectiveness of P4C from a global perspective, 
contrasting the results of Western versus non-Western 
countries. Newby, Gardner and Wolf look at the challenge 
of implementing a community of inquiry with a children’s 
soccer team, while the fourth article by Yarmel offers an 
interesting reflection on the role that crises play in the 
community of inquiry.  The fifth article by Hines changes 
gears to explore the different ways that policies on children 
with disabilities are implemented in elementary schools 
across the U.S., and some of the troublesome lessons that 
“abled” students may draw from these differences. The final 
article by Wolf and Gardner investigates the notion of 
conceptual analysis, showing its centrality for daily life and 
why P4C is especially well-equipped to cultivate it.     

   
Collectively, the six articles provide an array of  

perspectives that highlight the resourcefulness of P4C as well 
as some challenges with implementing it, and remind us of 
the many prejudices our students are liable to internalize as 
the world outside the school translates into the hidden 
curriculum within.   

  
I hope the current volume finds you all doing well and 

engaged in a project you love. 
 

Pax et Bonum  
 
Jason J. Howard                   

CHIEF EDITOR 

Jason J. Howard 

Viterbo University 

 

WEB PAGE MASTER 

Jason Skoog 

Viterbo University 

 

COPY EDITOR 

Jan Wellik 

Viterbo University 

 

EDITORIAL BOARD 

Sara Cook 

Viterbo University 

 

Susan Gardner 

Capilano University 

 

Susan Hughes 

Viterbo University 

 

David Kennedy 

Montclair State University 

 

Nadia S. Kennedy 

Stony Brook University, SUNY 

 

Richard Morehouse, Emeritus 

Viterbo University 

 

Félix García Moriyón 

Center for Philosophy for Children, Madrid, Spain 

 

Joe Oyler 

Maynooth University, Kildare, Ireland 

 

Barbara Weber 

University of British Columbia 

 

 

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Established in 1981 as Analytic Teaching at Texas Wesleyan 

College and transferred to Viterbo in 1993. 

Online Copyright 2005. 

Analytic Teaching and Philosophical Praxis is a peer-reviewed, 

online, open access journal published annually and sometimes 

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