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Recognized by the American Philosophical Association for excellence and innovation, the Institute for the Advancement of Philosophy for Children provides curriculum materials and teacher support for engaging young people in philosophical inquiry.

11/06/2026

Once upon a time, there was a thoroughly repulsive island, home to a great array of ugly monsters who behaved in ways that matched their ugly appearance. One day a beautiful flower appeared on this rotten island, which frightened and repulsed the hideous and evil inhabitants. Was Plato right that the beautiful is the enemy of evil and the cause of the good? Might beauty in a classroom, or an office, or a bus station, have any effect on the people who study or work there?

Gareth B. Matthews' review of William Steig’s "Rotten Island" is now available for open-access download at the IAPC Digital Commons:
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/iapc_thinkingstories_picturebooks/77/

11/03/2026

The IAPC is proud to announce that we have just surpassed 100,000 downloads of curricular and scholarly resources from our Digital Commons website, from 193 countries.

Our ability to keep providing these and future resources depends largely on external contributions. PLEASE, if you have found our resources helpful in your teaching, research, and/or community work, say thanks by making a donation of any amount here:
https://crowdfund.montclair.edu/project/39751

10/30/2026

The IAPC is pleased to announce our Spring Online Workshop in P4C Facilitation and our Residential Summer Institute at Mendham. See flyers for both programs below and follow the links from their QR codes to register.

NOTE: The cost for the Mendham Institute has been significantly reduced for this year!

10/29/2026

Do I have to strive to be brave? Should I always try to excel? (What is bravery? What counts as excellence?)

The IAPC is pleased to share TWO reviews of TWO Frog and Toad stories by Arnold Lobel that lean philosophical, now available for open-access download at the IAPC Digital Commons!

In 1986 Gareth B. Matthews discussed how "Dragons and Giants," finds Frog and Toad testing their own bravery in ways that problematize bravery as a concept:
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/iapc_thinkingstories_chapterbooks/12/

In a new review, Thinking in Stories Editor Peter Shea relates "Dragons and Giants" to times of war and Lobel's "The Dream" to how children are so often urged into systems that are not friendly to them.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/iapc_thinkingstories_chapterbooks/11/

10/28/2026

The IAPC congratulates Arie Kizel for his essay "The Pedagogy of Disruption: Confronting the Mainstream Resistance to Philosophical Inquiry and Radical Education," featured on the Blog of the American Philosophical Association, citing IAPC co-founders Matthew Lipman and Ann Margaret Sharp:
https://blog.apaonline.org/2026/10/28/the-pedagogy-of-disruption-confronting-the-mainstream-resistance-to-philosophical-inquiry-and-radical-education/?amp=1

10/24/2026

The IAPC is pleased to share the podcast, "Can Robots or AI Be Real Friends? Kids Ages 7–10 Weigh In" produced by IAPC Fellow Dr. Iris Oved

https://pixelparenting.org/can-robots-or-ai-be-real-friends-kids-ages-7-10-weigh-in/

10/20/2026

The IAPC is pleased to share the announcement of the 2026 International Conference for Children's Philosophy convened by the Austrian Center for Philosophy for Children and Young People, to be held December 3-6 at the Meerscheinschlössl of the University in Graz. This year's conference theme is "“Time, Language and Communication in the Digital Age." Abstracts in English or German including title and summary (max. 300 words), biography (max. 200 words), five keywords are due by October 30, 2026 to: [email protected]

Conference website:
https://kinderphilosophie-gesellschaft.uni-graz.at/de/kongresse/kongress-2026/

10/17/2026

The IAPC congratulates Filipino colleagues on the new book "Doing Philosophy with Young People in the Philippines," edited by Peter Paul Elicor, available for preorder at:
https://forms.gle/XnTh6UwNvrS9nScD7

10/08/2026

The IAPC is pleased to share the announcement of "The Futures of Philosophy: A Symposium on Integrating Philosophical Inquiry into the PK-12 Classroom" taking place at Texas A&M University March 3 & 4, 2027. Follow this link for more information and to submit a poster proposal:

October 2, 2026 The Futures of Philosophy: A Symposium on Integrating Philosophical Inquiry into the PK-12 Classroom Supported by a Symposium and Small Conference grant from the Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research. Additional funding provided by: the American Philosophical Associatio...

09/30/2026

"The reason for studying philosophy, (to put it at its lowest) is that there have been philosophers before us, and the only way to avoid being imposed upon by them is to turn philosophers ourselves. If it takes a thief to catch a thief, it may fairly be presumed that it takes a philosopher to catch a philosopher.”

John Dewey, 1893

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Montclair, NJ
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http://cehs.montclair.edu/academic/iapc/

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