《儿童哲学探究课程中存在的挑战的研究（英文）》.pdf

Available online at ScienceDirect Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences 116 ( 2014 ) 2141 – 2145 th 5 World Conference on Educational Sciences - WCES 2013 The study on challenges of teaching philosophy for children Mohsen Farmahini Farahani (Ph.D) * Associate professor,Shahed University ,Tehran, Iran Abstract In recent decades, philosophy and children has been proposed under various titles including Philosophy for Children (P4C), Philosophy with Children (PWC), Philosophy and Children (PAC) in the field of education and philosophy. Given the importance of education for children in contemporary philosophy, this study examines challenges and solutions with respect to the philosophy and teaching philosophy for children. According to the above objective, 30 challenges were identified as the most important of these challenges can be included: the concept of philosophy as a discipline, lack of trained and skilled instructors to teach philosophy to children, breakdown between existing social values and norms ,the ambiguous role of the teacher in this kind of education, to use precipitately philosophy for childrens education, familys unawareness of education philosophy for children, lack of childrens cognitive development to understand abstract concepts of education philosophy programs for children. © 2013 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. Open access under CC BY-NC-ND license. Selection and/or peer-review under responsibility of Academic World Education and Research Center. Key words: Philosophy for children, challenges of teaching, challenges; Introduction