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Subject: New article by Oscar Brenifier
Among the aficionados of Philosophy with children, called P4C by the initiated, there is a concept that has gained a lot of popularity over the last few years: “caring thinking”. Appealing to the traditional criteria of “goodness” or “quality” in the modern American tradition, which has now been universalized through the Internet, we might well conclude that if it’s popular it must be good! Be it the hit parade, the best seller’s list or the “Ten best” classical concept on U.S. and affiliated campuses, all of which fit very well with basic principles of marketing. Thus this “caring thinking” has become now such an overtly and widely claimed characteristic of philosophical practice with children, so much so that recently one could read in the mails of an international forum, without any reactions from readers, a P4C practitioner claiming that indeed this “caring thinking” was the primary—we could have almost heard the sole…—interest for philosophizing with children, the main reason to do it.
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