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atpp-1022	Weber, Barbara; Gardner, Susan	Back to the Future in Philosophical Dialogue: A Plea for Changing P4C Teacher Education	2009	6	.pdf	application/pdf	3761	152	54	Of course P4C facilitators cannot learn all or even most philosophy, and we will never—unhappily—be in a position in which Ph. D’s in philosophy are teaching in elementary schools. And finally, though certainly not least—though perhaps most relevant—Matt Lipman, founder of Philosophy for Children, in responding to this Pierce/Deweyan call for genuine inquiry in the face of real and living doubt, situated the Community of Inquiry at its pedagogical center, and, as well, insisted that students, not the text nor teacher, decide what topic they want to discuss thus ensuring that the issue under inquiry was of genuine relevance.12 In so doing, Lipman suggests to us, in spades, an obvious format for the philosophical education of P4C teachers.	cache/atpp-1022.pdf	txt/atpp-1022.txt