Our 2018 Meeting was held in Odense from 26th and 27th May. The theme for the year was Children’s Literature, Critical Literacy and Philosophy with Children.
You can find resources and workshop descriptions on our members only Resources page.
The meeting begins with welcomes from Peter (President) and Emma (Network Meeting Co-ordinator)
First workshop explores the problem of cultural a priori (how to do philosophy with Hans Christian Anderson in Denmark?)
New friends, Lukasz (Ireland & Poland), Sywia (Poland & Netherlands), Jason (UK) and Ewelina (Poland)
Kristof (Belgium) experiments by doing Socratic Questioning with Nietzsche text Beyond Good and Evil
Steve (UK) runs a session on doing philosophy with picture books with very young children
Caroline kicks the meeting off by asking for help in how to explore Hans Christian Anderson tales when they are so rooted in the culture that it is difficult to question them philosophically
Polish thinking…
Jelle (Belgium) explains the concept of a Philonaut – an alien facilitator who asks for explanations of everything!
Enquiring together
Pete (UK), Lukasz (Ireland and Poland), Ewelina (Poland) and Sywia (Poland and the Netherlands)
Concept gathering on a poem – the first part of exploring texts with Peter (UK)
Layla (France) thinking and talking in the group
More enquiries
What’s left of the group on the final day!
Ilse (Belgium) Red Riding Hood retold through a computer game
Red Riding Hood Redux
One of our lovely hosts Caroline
Network meeting means lots of network opportunities…and time keeping by the meeting co-ordinator (Emma)
Julie (Denmark) takes us through the problems of translations
Julie is trying to translate some French books for doing philosophy with children into Danish
The sasa begins…
Lion!
Eef & Jelle (Belgium) introduce us to Philonauts: What is it to be human?
From Huckleberry Finn to a #thugslife – moral corruption? Led by Ozge and Tugce from Turkey
Lukasz (Poland & Ireland) leads us in Sasa as a warm up
Joos (Belgium) takes us through Milos Jeremic’s (Serbia) hermeneutics exercise.
Peter and Jason (UK) try some Dutch clapping
Emma (UK) and Leunny (Netherlands) run a workshop on fake news and policy
Ilse (Belgium) asks us to come up with questions for Red Riding Hood Redux…this group consider the role of the mother.
And this group is looking at the story from the perspective of the hunter…
Saving...