Our three-fold mission includes education (offering curriculum, teaching resources and professional development workshops in Philosophy for Children), advocacy of children’s philosophy, and research. The IAPC has affiliate centers in nearly forty countries and our curriculum has been translated and culturally adapted in sixteen languages.

Philosophy is a matter of wrestling and playing with, ethical, aesthetic, epistemological, metaphysical and other perplexities common to human experience at every age, that children are fully-fledged human beings for whom the impulse to philosophize is natural, and that children’s philosophical practice is an important resource for the reconstruction of philosophy, education, and democratic society.