PhiFa - Philosophizing with children as a subject in primary school

• Goal / content

Research project on philosophizing with children in the Boy-Lornsen elementary school, Schleswig-Holstein

Philosophizing with children as part of school lessons or as a separate subject in primary school is still little researched. At the Boy-Lornsen Primary School in Brunsbüttel / Schleswig-Holstein, philosophizing will be introduced in all grades as a substitute for religious education at the beginning of the 2020 school year. The research project is designed as accompanying research to the implementation of the new subject and examines the conditions for success and effects of philosophizing as a subject.

• Status of the project

Project start October 2020.

• Publications

Kerstin Michalik (2018): Empirische Forschung zu Wirkungen philosophischer Gespräche mit Kindern. In: Philosophieren mit Kindern – Forschungszugänge und -perspektiven, hrsg. v. Heike de Boer/Kerstin Michalik: Opladen, Berlin, Toronto, S. 13-32.

Michalik, Kerstin/Schreier, Helmut (2017): Wie wäre es, einen Frosch zu küssen? Philosophieren im Grundschulunterricht. (Praxis Pädagogik Westermann) Braunschweig. 2. Auflage.