childhood & philosophy

a journal of the international council of philosophical inquiry with children

 

submission guidelines and notes for contributors

 

the editors of childhood & philosophy welcome electronic submissions in the following areas:

 

papers about, or compilations from, philosophers on childhood and on education

 

j       scholarly or research articles about childhood, childhood and philosophy, doing philosophy with children, or some other combination of childhood, education and philosophy

j       annotated transcripts of conversations with children

j       philosophical stories and discussion plans

j       curriculum samples

j       book reviews

j       reports on current projects or conferences

j       poetry

j       submission for our images archive, which includes images of and by children: children’s drawing and painting, photographs by children, photographs of or by children, etc.

 

childhood & philosophy is a juried publication, and does not accept previously published contributions. all submissions will be anonymously reviewed by one or more members of our board of editorial consultants.  final decisions on submissions, including requests for revisions, are the responsibility of the editors. once published in childhood & philosophy, authors are free to republish their contributions, on condition that they mention childhood & philosophy as the original place of publication.

 

submissions may be in english, portuguese, spanish, italian, russian or french.  if you wish to submit in some other language, the editors will consider publishing it in its original language or may request a translation. all submissions should, if possible, be prepared as word files, and must be “camera ready”—i.e. appropriately formatted, spell-checked, and ready for uploading into the journal.  all graphics should be submitted in a separate file. we accept any style of bibliographic citation as long as it is internally consistent. contributions should not exceed 25 pages in length. a 150-word abstract, three key words, and a brief autobiographical statement should be included with each submission.

 

send all submissions to both editors as email attachments, and copy to the managing editor of childhood & philosophy, at the following addresses:

 

walter kohan, professor

faculty of philosophy and education

state university of rio de janeiro

brazil

walterk@uerj.br

 

david kennedy, associate professor

department of educational foundations and

institute for the advancement of philosophy for children (iapc)

montclair state university

usa

kennedyd@mail.montclair.edu

 

childhood & philosophy

managing editor

childphilo@filoeduc.org