Amigos, colegas
Eis a primeira chamada ao próximo Congresso Internacional do ICPIC em
Bulgária, em junho de 2003. Participem! Walter


> FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
>
> CHILDREN AND ADULTS: A PHILOSOPHICAL ENCOUNTER
> THE ELEVENTH BIANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL FOR
> PHILOSOPHICAL INQUIRY WITH CHILDREN (ICPIC)
>
> JUNE 26-30, 2003
> VARNA, BULGARIA
>
> Dear friends of philosophical inquiry with children:
>
> It is with pleasure and anticipation that I announce the eleventh ICPIC
> conference, to be held on the Black Sea shore in the city of Varna,
> Bulgaria. Our conference theme revolves around dialogue between children
and
> adults. We welcome interactive presentations which approach this theme
from
> any number of angles-whether theoretical papers, reports of relevant
> research, original curriculum, or some other. Thirty to fifty children,
> mainly from the Rakovsky School in Varna, a grades 1-12 institution which
> has been practicing P4C for nearly a decade, will attend the conference,
and
> approximately one-third of the sessions will be planned as philosophical
> dialogues among groups of children, as well as groups with roughly equal
> numbers of adults and children. Keynotes will be delivered by both adults
> and children.
>
> Since this is an inter-generational conference, we encourage you to
consider
> bringing any or all your own children, if this is appropriate-or, if you
> live within the region-schoolchildren with whom you practice philosophy.
>
> If you wish to propose a paper, or to conduct a session with a specific
> theme, please submit a proposal of 300-500 words to any or all of the
ICPIC
> officers, who are:
>
> David Kennedy, President (USA)
> Kennedyd@...
>
> Beate Borresen, Vice-President (Norway)
> Beate.Borresen@...
>
> Cecilia Hornell, Secretary (Sweden)
> cecilia.hornell@...
>
> Brynhildur Sigurdardottir, Treasurer (Iceland)
> brynhildurs@...
>
> Hoping to see you there,
> David Kennedy
>
>
> ABOUT VARNA:
> Varna has known many incarnations since at least 4500 BC. Although the
> Thracians were there by the seventh century BC, the Greeks established the
> city as Odessos in 580 BC, as part of their colonization of the Black Sea
> coast. The Romans made of it a major port. In fact, it did not become part
> of the Bulgarian kingdom until the 11th century AD. During W.W.II, its
(now)
> mostly historically memorable native son was perhaps Anton Prudkin. A
> well-known European anarchist in his youth, Prudkin became a ship's
captain
> in Varna, then the Mayor of Sofia, then a political prisoner. In 1940 he
> returned to Varna, and spent the war years transporting Jews to Israel by
> ship (Bulgaria did not allow Germany to take her Jews to concentration
> camps). Ten days before the Russian army arrived, Prudkin was hanged in a
> Varna prison for his connections with the communist guerillas.
>
> Contemporary Varna has a winter population of about 350,000-a heady
mixture
> of Greeks, Bulgarians, Turks, Gypsies, and (after the holocaust of
1920-24),
> Armenians. In summer the population more than doubles, due to its
legendary
> beaches, restaurants, hotels and resorts, outdoor cafes, shops, markets,
and
> automobile-free streets in the center of town, not to speak of bars,
> nightclubs and discos, historical and archeological sites, dancing bears,
> inhabitants of extraordinary beauty and charm, and stunningly blue summer
> skies.
>
> Philosophy for/with Children has been practiced in Varna since the early
> 1990's, under the aegis of the Bulgarian-American Center, and Philosophy
for
> Children has in fact been approved by the Bulgarian Ministry of
> Education-which controls curriculum on a national level-as an optional
> program since 1995. About 80 Varna elementary school teachers are
certified
> P4C teachers, and they teach in roughly one-half of the 25 elementary
> schools in and around the city.
>
>
>
>
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