Past events

2011

The name PCYNAP stands for the Philosophy with Children and Youth Network for Asia and the Pacific. PCYNAP formally met for the first time at the 15th ICPIC held in Jinju Korea July 2011.

What is PCYNAP?

The Philosophy with Children and Youth Network for Asia and the Pacific (PCYNAP) was founded in 2011 by philosophers and teachers in Asia-Pacific region and beyond who are interested in engaging children in philosophical inquiry.

The purposes of the organization are:

1.To promote, coordinate and disseminate research and to organize international congresses as well as specialized symposium in the field of Philosophy with children and youth;
2.To promote relationships between philosophers and educators and others concerned with the fostering of children’s and youth’s cognitive [and non-cognitive (including, in particular, respect, care and trust)] development through philosophy;
3.To establish relationships among such philosophers and educators committed to introducing philosophy into all school levels throughout the region;
4.To encourage rapprochement among scholars with regard to problems of pedagogical method;
5.To coordinate efforts of those seeking to introduce philosophy into all formal and informal school curricula;
6.To promote the setting up of regional centers of philosophy to assist in the designing and dissemination of courses in philosophy with children and the youth; and
7.To encourage philosophers to devote themselves to continued improvement of the quality of education for all children and youth through the introduction of philosophy.

President: Jinwhan Park

Vice-President: Ngo Tuyen

Secretary: Kristie Chen

Treasurer: Melany Natividad

2012

1️⃣Philosophy Summer Camp (2.08.2012-5.08.2012)

Jiri Mountain Jinju Isabelle Jaspers, Yuliya Kravchenko, Melany Natividad and Olga Rogachova participated as volunteers from foreign countries).

2️⃣ International P4c Workshop GNU Jinju (06.08.2012 – 11.08.2012)

The Multicultural and Ethics Education Workshop

3️⃣Korea-Iran Joint International Conference (14.09.2012)

Curriculum for Future Society
Iran and Korean P4c and curriculum developers had Joint international conference GNU Jinju

4️⃣Ukraine P4c Workshop (08.11.2012-11.11.2012 Kiev)

International Training
“Philosophy for children: a style of thinking that leads to academic and life success”

2013

The 5th International PCYNAP Workshop and Conference August 19-23, 2013)

Critical Thinking and Ethics Education Conference and workshop;
Jinju, Gyeongsang National University Republic of Korea

The participation fee for this 5-day event is US$200 which is already inclusive of room and board.

Participants:
1. Jin Whan Park (S. Korea)
2. Dr. Park (CBT workshop S.Korea)
3. Siriphen Piriyachittakornkit- Culalongkorn University (Thailand)
4. Apisra Anangkhanatra—- (Thailand)
5. Usa Suttisakorn (Thailand)
6. Kim Soon Ja (S. Korea)
7. Lam—- (China)
8. Larisa T, Retyunskikh (Russia)
9. Hyesook Kim (S. Korea)
10. Isabelle Jaspers
11. Yuliya Kravchenko (Ukraine)
12. Melany Del Rosario (PhD student, Philipines)
13. Olga Rogachova (PhD student,Ukraine)
14. Farzaneh Shahrtash (new PhD student, Iran)
15. Zhanna Volokhova ((new PhD student, Ukraine)

Zhanna Volokhova

Siriphen Piriyachittakornkit- Culalongkorn Uni

CT and Ethics Education Conference and workshop-2013

2014

1️⃣“PRACTICAL ASPECT OF CREATIVE –IMAGINATIVE THINKING EDUCATION IN SCHOOL”

Jinju, Gyeongsang National University Republic of Korea ( July 7th 2014)

2018

24th World Congress of Philosophy “Learning to be Human” 13-20 Aug. 2018

PCYNAP Participants:
1) Jin Whan Park (S. Korea)
2) Rainier Ibana (Philipines)
3) Janette Poulton (Australia)
4) Farzaneh Shahrtash (Iran)
5) Larisa T, Retyunskikh (Russia)
6) Peter Paul Elicor (Philipines)
7) Gao Lincoln (China)

PCYNAP Gathering-2018- 3

PCYNAP Gathering-2018-1

PCYNAP Gathering-2018-2

PCYNAP Gathering-2018-4

2021

2021 Asia Pacific Conference On Philosophy for Children

New Approaches and Directions

A Celebration of the 10th Anniversary of the foundation of PCYNAP

October 30th - 31st 2021

The Philosophy with Children and Youth Network for Asia and the Pacific (PCYNAP) met for the first time at the 15th ICPIC held in Jinju Korea in July 2011. In 2020 we began a renewed effort to build the network resulting in a number of joint projects, including foundation of a reading group and a Children’s International discussion Circle, and we now proudly announce this Conference celebrating the tenth anniversary of PCYNAP. Our aim is to consolidate our efforts to date, so we can move forward together with the wonderful work we are doing preparing our students to meet the challenges of life in the 21 st Century. We hope you will join us in this venture.

The Conference will draw together a wide range of eminent Asian-Pacific scholars and practitioners in the field of Philosophy for/with Children ( P4wC) to provide not only an historical account of the journey to date, but to create opportunities to reflect on the insights and experiences of the practitioners/authors within the varied cultural contexts of the network. We will showcase the diversity of the P4wC models which have evolved in the Asia-Pacific region, providing a platform for researchers and practitioners to tell their stories in their own cultural contexts. We will celebrate and strengthen our connections with the international associations IAPC and ICPIC and FAPSA. We will establish new opportunities for collaboration within the network, including the publication of a practitioner’s handbook, research projects and a Routledge publication

Conference Registration forms

PRICE: $US30 Registered members of PCYNAP $US50 Non-Members

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INQUIRIES

pcynap21@gmail.com

MEET OUR KEY NOTE SPEAKERS

Pingchen Hsiung CIPSH

“Back to the Future? Connecting Children with Philosophies Today and from the Past “

Prof. Ping-chen Hsiung, is the current secretary-general and executive committee member of CIPSH (Council for Philosophy and Human Sciences), founder and president of Asian New Humanities Net (ANHN) , CIPSH Chair of New Humanities in University of California at Irvine, UNESCO chair on Humanities Cultural Landscape Management at Polytechnic Institute of Tomar, distinguished Professor in Residence and Director of Global Humanities Initiative, Hang Seng University of Hong Kong and distinguished professor of Hangzhou Normal University in China.

Maughn Rollins Gregory IAPC

“Ann Margaret Sharp, Gareth B. Matthews, & Matthew Lipman: contesting what really matters in children’s philosophy”

Maughn Rollins Gregory is Professor of Educational Foundations at Montclair State University (USA), where he succeeded Matthew Lipman as the director of the Institute for the Advancement of Philosophy for Children in 2001. He publishes and teaches in the areas of philosophy of education, philosophy for children, pragmatism, gender studies, and Socratic and contemplative pedagogies. He is co-editor of the Routledge International Handbook of Philosophy for Children (Routledge 2017) and, with Megan Laverty, the Routledge series Philosophy for Children Founders. He has edited a number of special journal issues on philosophy for children and is currently serving as the inaugural Research Coordinator for the International Council of Philosophical Inquiry with Children. He also serves as Vice President for Personnel / Grievance Officer for the American Federation of Teachers, Local 1904.

Arie Kizel ICPIC

“The Facilitator’s Challenges in a Philosophical Community of Inquiry”

Dr. Arie Kizel is a professor of philosophy of education at the department of learning and instructional sciences at the faculty of education in the University of Haifa (Israel). Since 2019 he serves as the president of the International Council of Philosophical Inquiry with Children (ICPIC). Prof. Kizel is a member of the advisory board of the UNESCO Chair, “Practice of Philosophy with Children” (promoting international interuniversity cooperation and networking to enhance institutional capacities through knowledge-sharing and collaborative work). He was the head of the Israeli-German Commission for Schoolbooks (2010 – 2015). His academic areas of research and writing are philosophy of education, philosophy for/with children, research of textbooks and curriculum and research of narrative of social groups.

Rainier Ibana PCYNAP

Rainier teaches Ethics, Environmental Ethics, and Teaching Philosophy at Ateneo de Manila University. He has been organizing student-and community-centered teacher training workshops for the UNESCO National Commission of the Philippines since 2007, and for UNESCO’s Regional Office in 2012 and 2018. With the support of UNESCO’s Participation Programme in Paris, he convened, edited, and published an anthology of Southeast Asian Wisdom Stories for Sustainable Development in (Manila: UNESCO National Commission, 2012). Aside from the stories, this collection includes philosophical commentaries and teaching guides from eleven countries in the ASEAN region. As a member of UNESCO’s World Commission for the Ethics of Science and Technology, he chaired their technical working group for Environmental Ethics from 2013 until 2018. Aside from becoming a member of the adhoc working group that drafted UNESCO’s “Declaration of Ethical Principles in Relation to Climate Change,” (2017), he coordinated the Asia-Pacific section of UNESCO’s Philosophy Manual: A South-south Perspective (Paris: UNESCO 2014) and served as the main educator for UNESCO’s MOOC on Climate Change Ethics: Lessons from the Global South (London: FutureLearn, 2017).

Jinwhan Park PCYNAP

“Aesthetic dimension of Matthew Lipman’s Moral Education”

He established PCYNAP to promote children’s philosophy education that suits the characteristics of the Asia-Pacific region in 2011. It has held seven Asia-Pacific workshops so far. Starting with the establishment of the Seoul National University of Education “Philosophy Research Association”, which was founded in 1968, he has been working as a teacher at the school site Korean Academy of Teaching Philosophy in School and as an emeritus professor at Gyeongsang National University to promote philosophy education in school. He introduced IAPC works in Korea.He co-studied international research with Matthew Lipman the founder of the Philosophy for Children program, and has been working on the development of pedagogy based on Oriental Philosophy including pragmatic, phenomenal, and analytical philosophies.

Megan Jane Laverty IAPC

“Ann Margaret Sharp, Gareth B. Matthews, & Matthew Lipman: contesting what really matters in children’s philosophy.”

Megan is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University. She teaches graduate courses on philosophy of education, ethics and education, and aesthetics and education. Her primary research interests are: the history of philosophy of education; moral philosophy and its significance for education; and philosophy with children and adolescents in schools. She is the author of Iris Murdoch’s Ethics: A Consideration of her Romantic Vision (Bloomsbury, 2007) and the editor of two pre-college philosophy textbooks with Oxford University Press. She co-edits the Philosophy for Children Founders Series (Routledge) with Maughn Rollins Gregory, which includes, In Community of Inquiry with Ann Margaret Sharp: Philosophy, Childhood, and Education (2017), Gareth B. Matthews, The Child’s Philosopher (2022), and Matthew Lipman and the Educational Role of Philosophy (forthcoming). She is co-editor, With David T. Hansen of the five-volume series A History of Western Philosophy of Education (Bloomsbury, 2021).

Janette Poulton PCYNAP and FAPSA

“Asian Pacific Children’s Circles.”

Janette has been pro-active in the establishing of Philosophy in Schools for over 25 years. Since 2002 she been employed as the Education and Innovations Officer for VAPS (Victorian Association for Philosophy in Schools) and as such has been responsible for curriculum development, training of presenters, and administration of courses supporting the teaching of philosophy in various education contexts. She has initiated the increasingly popular Philosophical inquiry opportunities for students in Public Institutions such as state Galleries, Zoos and Museums.

Janette has served in a number of voluntary and honorary positions: as a member of VAPS, as joint Secretary on the ICPIC (International Council for Philosophical Inquiry with Children) Executive and twice served as President of FAPSA (Federation of Australasian Philosophy in Schools Associations). In 2016 she was elected as Deputy Chair to PCYNAP.

She has delivered papers and conducted workshops internationally and in various Australian states. She was awarded her Doctorate of Education for research on The Development of Philosophical dispositions in the Middle Years of Schooling. She is currently employed at the Melbourne Graduate School of Education (MGSE) at The University of Melbourne as a Clinical Teaching Specialist.

Tetsuya Kono ICPIC

“Citizenship and P4C Development in the Aftermath of the Disasters”

Dean of the College of Arts Professor of the Department of Education at Rikkyo University, Tokyo, Japan PhD (philosophy), Keio University, Tokyo, Japan He received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from Keio University. His main research interests lie in phenomenology, philosophy of mind, and philosophical psychology. He is also concerned in environmental philosophy and environmental education. He has been practicing philosophy with children in primary and secondary schools as well as philosophy cafes for adults for many years. He is teaching philosophy of education, moral education, special need education in the department of education of Rikkyo University. Major publications (books, all in Japanese): Philosophical Picture Book for Children: What is Moral? (2019), Everything Will Revert to Wild Someday (2016）, Phenomenology of the Environment (2016), Phenomenology of Body and Special Needs Education (2015), Phenomenology of Boundaries (2014), Introduction to Philosophy for Children (2014), Consciousness doesn’t Exist (2011), The Ecological Self (2011), Re-questioning the Concept of Morality (2011), etc. Director of Philosophical Association of Japan, Philosophy of Science Society, Japanese Society for Philosophical Practice, Editorial board of the Journal of Environmental Ethics etc.

Here is the CONFERENCE SCHEDULE (as of 21 October)

2021 Asia Pacific Conference on Philosophy for Children New Approaches and Directions
SATURDAY 30^th OCTOBER 2021
Welcome from PCYNAP and Introduction to Fellow Organisations
A 9:00-10:30 Rainier	Rainier Ibana and Jin Whan Park		PCYNAP
	Pingchen Hsiung and Associate Dean Li Zhao		CIPSH and HZNU
	Arie Kizel and Tetsuya Kono		ICPIC
	Janette Poulton and Lorelei Siegloff		FAPSA
MEET and GREET In BREAK OUT ROOMS. All In
PRESENTATIONS
A 10:30-11:30 Lincoln	Pingchen Hsiung	Back to the Future? Connecting Children with Philosophies Today and from the Past
A.11:30-12:30 Janette	Arie Kizel	The Facilitator’s Challenges in a Philosophical Community of Inquiry
A 12:30-1:30 Melany	Tetsuya Kono	Citizenship and P4C Development in the Aftermath of the Disasters
A 1:30-2:30	LUNCH Break out rooms available for meetings
A. 2:30-4:30 PANEL Janette	Damien Roiland	Blue Bahay: More than a Place to Play
	Lorelei Siegloff	A Map for Democratic Dialogue using the Thinker’s Toolkit.
A. 4:30-5:30 Jill	Jill Howells hosting a p4c Show and Tell Contact Jill.Howells@education.vic.gov.au if you would like to present
B.2.30-4:30 PANEL Rainier and Lu	Hafizhah Zulkifli	Teacher Evaluation of Students Progress on Hikmah (Wisdom) Pedagogy in Islamic Education
	Abigail Thea Canuto	Civic Education for Deliberative Citizenship: Making a Case for the Cultivation of Communities of Inquiry in Philippine Social Studies
	Marella Bolanos & students	Online Community of Inquiry Across Ages.

SUNDAY 31^st OCTOBER 2021
A 9:00-9:30 Rainier	WELCOME from PCYNAP Officers: Rainier Ibana Janette Poulton, Melany Del Rosario IAPC: Maughn Gregory and Megan Laverty MEET and GREET In BREAK OUT ROOMS
A 9:30-10:30 Janette	Megan Laverty and Maughn Gregory,	Ann Margaret Sharp, Gareth B. Matthews, & Matthew Lipman: contesting what really matters in children’s philosophy.
A 10:30-11:30 Janette	Janette Poulton, Peter Paul Elicor and Sohyun Bae	Asian Pacific Children’s Circles.
A 11:30-12:30 Lincoln	Jinwhan Park	Aesthetic Dimension of Matthew Lipman’s Moral Education
A 12:30	LUNCH Break out rooms available for meetings
A 1:30-3:30 PANEL A1 Janette Lincoln	April Capili	Is It Desirable to Do Philosophy with Students in Their Second Language?
	Li Xu	A Phenomenological investigation of Children’s Drawing from the perspective of Maurice Merleau-Ponty
	Aurelio Solver Agcaoili	A Calculus of Meaning: Rewriting Old Stories for Children
A 3:30-5:30 PANEL A2 Janette Lincoln	Yeongmin Kwon	The Meaning of Leisure: Revisited by Dewey’s Concept of Experience
	Wei Yu (trans. by Luowa Yang)	The “Third Way” of Philosophy for Children : Practice and Research from the Primary School Attached to Northeast Normal University of China
	Zhenyu Gao	Philosophy for Children in China: Past, Present and Future.
B 1:30 -3:30 PANEL B1 Melany Lu Leng	Saria Chan et al	Beyond Borders-Review of a 3-year PI implementation in the Hong Kong context and way forward
	Lu Leng	The Application of philosophy for children Hawaii Approach to Education in Mainland China
	Soroor Saremifar	Six Online P4C classes across Iran based on IAPC program: an action report.
B 3:30-5:30 PANEL B2 Melany Lu Leng	Leander P. Marquez	Integrating Philosophical Inquiry in Philippine K-12 Education
	Tokui Chiaki	Expansion and Issues of Philosophy for Children in Japanese School Education
	Thomas Low	The Journey of P4C in Singapore
A 5:30	Closing Ceremony

ROOM	HOST	Email
ROOM A	Janette Poulton	pcynap21@gmail.com
ROOM A	Zhenyu Gao	lincolngao@hznu.edu.cn
ROOM B	Lu Leng	lusophialeng@163.com
	Rainier Ibana	rai.ibana@gmail.com
	Melany del Rosario	mfdelrosario@slu.edu.ph
ROOM C	Terry Wang	wangty916@gmail.com
ROOM C	Terry Wang	pcynap21@gmail.com

ROOM C DROP IN OPEN Thurs 28 Oct to 31 Oct

Email Terry if no one is there.

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