Professor of Educational Foundations, Montclair State University

Director, Institute for the Advancement of Philosophy for Children

Professor Emeritus, Educational Foundations, Montclair State University

Professor of Philosophy and Education, Teachers College

Deputy Head of Department, Assistant Professor, Maynooth University

The Enquiry Project, Founder; Adjunct Professor, Educational Foundations, Montclair State University; Vice President, PLATO

Professor of Educational Foundations, Montclair State University

Associate Teaching Professor, Department of Educational Foundations, Montclair State University

Professor of Philosophy of Education at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) and Senior Research member of the National Council of Scientific and Technological Development (CNPQ, Brazil)

Independent Scholar and Chief Editor, Thinking in Stories

Iris Mendel is a philosopher and social scientist and trained teacher at the Department of Education Research and Teacher Education at the University of Graz, Austria. Her research interests include education and social inequality, feminist theories, care and critical pedagogy. She is currently working in a participatory project with students in a secondary school on climate change and storytelling.

Claire Foster is a recent graduate of Johns Hopkins University MLA program (concentration: philosophy) and SAPERE-certified (Level 1). Last spring, published in Confluence, The Journal of the AGLSP. Developing and facilitating P4C workshops for underserved high school students in the community. Member of the PLATO New England Consortium and regular participant in an international adult COI. Developing a social media concept to destigmatize philosophy.

Ma. Theresa T. Payongayong is a professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of the Philippines Diliman, where she teaches courses on Feminist Philosophy, Filipino Philosophy, and Philosophy for Children, among others. She currently holds the position of Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs in charge of curriculum and instruction. She is also convenor of the ASEAN University Network Gender Justice and Inclusion.

Maja works at an elementary school with a philosophy profile in Stockholm, Sweden. She works with students aged 7-16 and the method we use is loosely inspired by P4C. She is also studying for a master's degree in pedagogy and hopefully this course can be useful for the writing of my master's thesis.

 Karolina Julin works as a primary school teacher in a school in Stockholm, Sweden, called “Filosofiska” (Philosophically). She works with students from 6-9 years old and is also studying for her masters degree in paedagogy and aim to write an essay about Thinking: The Journal of Philosophy for Children.

 Nicola Bozzi is a postgraduate student and tutor in Philosophy at the University of Galway. He has been learning and practing P4C first in Italy, in a non-profit organization born within the University of Bologna, and now in Galway with Dr Lucy Elvis. After the summer, he will start a PhD to explore how P4C can foster courage and attention in democratic contexts

Ronan Geraghty is originally from Ireland, but has been living in Sydney for the past few years. He recently completed his Masters in Philosophy at the University of Galway, where my thesis explored the phenomenology of thought and choice. 

KC finished her graduate and doctoral studies in Ethics and Philosophy at Kobe University under the Monbukagakusho (Japanese Government Scholarship). In 2018, she returned to the University of the Philippines, Diliman where she teaches Socio-Political Philosophy, Contemporary Philosophy, as well as Comparative/Japanese Philosophy. Her research focuses on applying ethical principles to issues such as immigration and feminism. 

Carrie has been teaching psychology, science and now, ethics at a wonderful, artsy high school in San Francisco for the majority of her adult life.  She has always been most focused on creating an emotionally safe classroom so that her students can feel seen and celebrated and take intellectual risks.  Outside of school, she enjoys kayaking, rock-climbing, political activism, hiking and traveling.

Tim Shea is a multimedia artist living in Queens NY.  He is concerned with finding methods to regain a sense of purchase on the Image against the endemic degradation and cheapening of the scopic field due in large part to the deleterious (side) effects of an omnipresent social media addiction. He makes a monthly Zine, hosts a weekly mixed medium open mic, and is an obsessive skateboarder committed to offering his limited knowledge and resources to subsequent generations of skateboard youth. 

Michela is a researcher and part-time lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Galway. She recently completed her postdoctoral work on the Critical Thinking in Communities of Inquiry project at the Insight Center for Data Analytics. She is the co-founder of AIRE Research Collective, correspondent for the journal Attention affiliated with the American Weil Society, and on the committee of the Irish Philosophical Society.

Lucy is a lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Galway, a founder of Curo Thinking for Communities a not-for-profit that focuses on empowering groups to think philosophically together in non-formal educational contexts from music festivals to art galleries and libraries and an art writer. Her research and teaching focuses on the power of art and of philosophical thinking to enrich human life.

Seunggyeong Lee completed the Master’s degree in Philosophy of Education at Pusan National University, Republic of Korea, and has now begun her Ph.D. studies in the same field. She wrote her master’s thesis on Martha Nussbaum’s concepts of disgust and literary imagination. Her research interests include philosophy for children, philosophy of art, and communities of philosophical inquiry through novels and picture books. She is also interested in educational settings that generate anxiety, uncertainty, strangeness, and confusion.

Beth is a bioethicist involved in social epidemiology, with a double doctorate in TransGlobal Health (VU Amsterdam) and Pharmacovigilance and Epidemiology (University of Bordeaux-Segalen). She is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy at the University of the Philippines, Diliman. Her research interests are the interactions among philosophy, poverty, health, and children. She hopes to use P4C to combat noncommunicable diseases in children and adolescents.  

Arlyn P. Macapinlac began her academic career in 1993 and is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of the Philippines Diliman. She has been serving the university in various capacities, including directorship in two administrative offices, consecutively. She finds fulfillment in teaching and witnessing her students’ “aha” moments. 

Chiara is a PhD candidate at the University of Palermo, Italy. Her current research draws on Giacomo Leopardi to develop an innovative educational method to raise awareness of contemporary climate and ecological disruptions, emphasizing the role of poetry and art as essential educational tools.

Liza is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at the University of the Philippines, Diliman where she teaches Ethics, Metaphysics, Philosophical Analysis, and the History of Ideas with a particular stress on Medieval Philosophy. She awarded the UP Diliman Centennial Professorial Chair in 2008 for her book The Dignity of the Thinking Person: A Philosophical Reflection on Human Nature (UST Publishing House, 2006).

Angela is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Education at Maynooth University, Ireland. As Course Leader for Year 1 of the Professional Master of Education (PME) program, she coordinates and teaches multiple modules across Initial Teacher Education programs. Her work focuses on promoting collaborative practice among educators, with research and teaching that encourages teachers, to integrate social justice in their practice. She currently supports a team of graduate students developing and facilitating academic writing workshops for student teachers, while her research focuses on LGBTIQ+ inclusion in Irish schools.

Professor at the University of the Philippines Diliman and Former Chair of the Department of Philosophy.  She teaches  Environmental Philosophy and Ethics, Philosophy of Food, Filipino Philosophy, and Ancient Philosophy.