Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2024
Journal / Book Title
INQUIRY: Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines
Abstract
Matthew Lipman befriended me at an APA meeting in 1974. Through more than twenty years of phone calls, I got to chat with, consult with, and learn from Matt the details and challenges of developing philosophy for children. He acknowledged that I convinced him that the program needed “branding,” lest anyone present similar-sounding programs—some of which might be good and others not. He got a snippet of a video of my teaching troubled sixth-graders with his book Harry Stottlemeier’s Discovery on the Today Show with Bryant Gumbel. That did much to shape my future, as did branding for sustaining Matt’s program. Lipman and I spoke by phone several times every year from 1976 until the mid-1990s.
DOI
10.5840/inquiryct20241511
Journal ISSN / Book ISBN
2153-9871
MSU Digital Commons Citation
Wagner, Paul A., "Wagner (2024) How Did Philosophy Get Back in the Twentieth-Century Pre–High School Classroom?" (2024). IAPC Written Histories. 1.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/iapc_written_histories/1
Published Citation
Wagner, Paul A. (2024) How Did Philosophy Get Back in the Twentieth-Century Pre–High School Classroom? Inquiry: Critical Thinking Across the Disciplines 33(1): 56-73.