Abstract

After attending an intensive summer workshop in Philosophy for Children given by Matthew Lipman and Ann Margaret Sharp last summer, I returned to school in September eager to implement the programme in a significant way. How to go about it? When to begin? Whom to involve? What steps to take in order to ensure a favourable reception of the project within the school community? These were some of the questions with which I began a year ago and what follows is an account of the initiation aspects of a project which is still in progress at Edinburgh Elementary School in Montreal, Quebec.