CONTRIBUTOR:

Walter Kohan

AFFILIATION:

TITLE:

Professor

DEPARTMENT:

Philosophy of Education

INSTITUTION:

State University of Rio de Janeiro

BIOGRAPHY:

Walter Omar Kohan has Post-doctoral Studies in Philosophy at the University of Paris 8. Since 2002 he is Full Professor of Philosophy of Education at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). He was Fellow Researcher at EPCD, at the University of British Columbia, 2017-8 and has been visiting professor at different universities in Italy, France, Argentina, Mexico and Chile. He is a Senior Researcher of the National Council of Scientific and Technologic Development (CNPQ, Brazil) and of the Foundation of Support of Research of the State of Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ, Brazil). Actual Director of the Center of Studies in Philosophy and Childhood (State University of Rio de Janeiro, since 2003: www.filoeduc.org). President (1999-2001) and member of the Advisory Board of the International Council for Philosophical Inquiry with Children (ICPIC, since 2002). Co-editor of Childhood & Philosophy, Journal of the International Council of Philosophy for Children (http://www.e-publicacoes.uerj.br/index.php/childhood). He has published over 100 peer reviewed articles, chapters and books as author, co-author or editor in different languages. Main books in English: Philosophy and Childhood: Critical Perspectives and Affirmative Practices. (Palgrave, 2014); Childhood, education and philosophy: new ideas for an old relationship (Routledge, 2015); The inventive Schoolmaster (Sense, 2015).