2 hours Saturdays
January 10 - March 14, 2026

Elevate your Philosophy for Children facilitation practice by taking a deep dive into dialogue facilitation theory and practice using the community of inquiry approach. Reflect on your current practices, gain valuable one-on-one coaching, and grow your skills by learning from fellow participants.

August 1-8, 2026

Participants in this course will experience and practice facilitating a “community of philosophical inquiry” with adults and explore the theoretical dimensions of philosophy for children. This course is held at St. Marguerite’s Retreat House in Mendham, New Jersey, and the course fee includes lodging and meals. It can be taken for Montclair State University master’s level credit.

Contact us to design a custom online or onsite workshop for your school.

Our curriculum engages young people in exploring the logical, ethical, political, aesthetic, and other philosophical dimensions of their experience. The curriculum consists of short novels for students and instructional manuals containing activities to supplement students inquiry.

Since 1979, Thinking in Stories has provided reviews of children’s and young adult literature containing philosophical perplexities ripe for inter-generational dialogue.

Published from 1979 through 2014, Thinking was a forum for the work of theorists and practitioners of philosophical practice with children, and published philosophical argument and reflection, classroom transcripts, curricula, empirical research and reports from the field.

The IAPC Digital Commons contains recordings of IAPC academic events, oral and written histories, collected papers of IAPC Faculty and Fellows, and doctoral dissertations in Pedagogy and Philosophy.

Find original video content produced by the IAPC and curated from other YouTube channels related to philosophy for children, philosophy of childhood, philosophy in children's and YA media, philosophy across the school subjects, and related topics.

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