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• Philosophy with Children and Critical Posthumanism: Rethinking Child(hood) and Human Subjectivity

  2026-04-08

  Call for Papers

  Special Issue of childhood & philosophy 

  Philosophy with Children and Critical Posthumanism: Rethinking Child(hood) and Human Subjectivity

  Philosophy with children (P₄C) positions children as capable of philosophical thought. Childhood has become a site for the radical democratisation of academic philosophy and a reconstruction of education (Lipman et al., 1977). However, there are (sometimes subtle) differences between P₄C proponents about their views of child(hood), with some strong voices resisting efforts to include children in the rational world of adults, or to use adult philosophy as the norm for what counts as ‘real’ philosophy (see, e.g., Haynes, Murris, Kennedy, Kohan, Stanley and Lyle). In addition to profoundly questioning developmental notions of childhood (Matthews, 1996), scholars have brought other interdisciplinary fields into rich conversation with P₄C, highlighting its embedded political dimensions, such as gender studies, child studies, critical race theory and decolonial scholarship (see, e.g., childhood & philosophy, v.22 (2026):  https://www.e-publicacoes.uerj.br/childhood/issue/view/3506). This Special Issue takes these critical enquiries into a different direction by bringing posthumanist perspectives into dialogue with P₄C. In a sense, P₄C is a living organism that absorbs the theoretical approaches of practitioners engaging with it: Vygotskyan, American pragmatist, phenomenological, postmodern and poststructuralist theories have profoundly influenced it (Rollins Gregory et al., 2017). They have shaped and continue to shape how core concepts such as thinking, community, democracy, agency, causality, voice and inclusion arise and take root in P₄C. In contrast, posthumanism works with a different ontology. The difference the ontological (re-)turn makes for P₄C, both theoretically and practically, is what this Special Issue aims to explore.

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• call for contributions - special issue: "racism, colonialism and philosophy for /with children: praxis in non-ideal contexts."

  2025-02-19

  contributions include, but are not limited to:

  1) traditional scholarly papers (c,6-8k words) – especially co-authored pieces;

  2) field notes and classroom reflections (that will be published under the section ‘experiences’)

  3) creative pieces that could be used as P4/wC starting points – stories, playscripts with commentaries (that will be published under a section entitled ‘literature’).

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