Ann Margaret Sharp's scientific contributions

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In close collaboration with the late Matthew Lipman, Ann Margaret Sharp pioneered the theory and practice of ‘the community of philosophical inquiry’ (CPI) as a way of practicing ‘Philosophy for Children’ and prepared thousands of philosophers and teachers throughout the world in this practice. In Community of Inquiry with Ann Margaret Sharp repres...
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The writings of Simone Weil support a feminist philosophy of education that locates freedom in self-determined creative work within contexts of necessity. In particular, Weil’s discussion of Force, the Good, Work, Method and Time provide criteria for a feminist philosophy of education, in terms of educational ends and means. Philosophy for Children...

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... As Leonard Nelson had perceived in the 1920s, any thorough analysis of concepts amounts to a "regress to principles" (Nelson, 1949, p. 10 One location worthy of investigation in Sharp's account of personhood and faith is her grounding of the relationship between self and other in a metaphysics of direct encounter. This is the position adopted by Ann Sharp in her essay, co-authored with Megan Laverty, entitled "Looking at Others' Faces" (Sharp & Laverty, 2018). In this essay, Sharp and Laverty follow Levinas in giving a privileged place to the direct encounter of the other as an immediate experiential ground that ties together the three actors at play in CPI: self, other, and community (Sharp & Laverty, 2018, p. 122;cf. ...
... Our understanding of teacher facilitation was greatly informed by the pedagogical literature on Philosophy for Children (P4C), an educational approach designed by philosophers with an explicit goal of supporting argumentation within a "community of inquiry" (e.g., Gregory, 2007a;Splitter & Sharp, 1996). In P4C pedagogy, teachers are expected to address procedural, rather than substantive aspects of discussion (Splitter & Sharp, 1996). ...
... cessity of radical education reform (e.g. L. J. Splitter, 1987;M. S. Pritchard, 1991;Moriyon, 1992;Glaser, 1994;Cam, 2000;Guin, 2004;A. Sharp, 2006;Haynes and Murris, 2008;Yorshansky, 2009;Vansieleghem, early view Matthews, 1980;Gazzard, 1983;Levine, 1983;Curtis, 1984;Martens, 1990;Matthews, 1994;Rollins, 1995;Gazzard, 1996;Juuso, 1999;Leeuw, 2004;A. Sharp and Gregory, 2009;Bleazby, 2011 Palermo and D'Erasmo, 1988;Slade, 1989;Yu-Jen, 1991;Gratton, 2000;Roemischer, 2004). ...