摘要：During the past few years, I have had the opportunity to spend considerable time with the graduate students at the IAPC at Montclair State University. The work has been both stimulating and satisfying. Students have come from several countries in addition to the United States. Their backgrounds in philosophy have varied: some have had an extensive background, having majored in philosophy at some undergraduate institution; others with different major interests as undergraduates have taken from many to almost no previous philosophy courses, and have read much or little from the literature. Some have come directly after competing undergraduate work, while others have had varying amounts and kinds of working experience. All have shared a strong interest in and devotion to philosophy for children. I was involved with the students in several aspects of their graduate work. Within the Institute, the students took seminars focusing on several of the novels. Beyond the Institute they were required to take a number of graduate courses, those required for the master of Education degree by Montclair. (Earlier, students worked for the Master of Arts in Teaching degree, which also required a number of courses outside IAPC, but different ones.) Outside the university, students did some practise teaching of philosophy for children at near-by schools. May part in the program was to participate in seminars and work with students on their many papers, to supervise practice teaching, and to hold weekly meetings with the students. It is those meetings about which I write here. Description of and comment on the kinds of work undertaken in the weekly graduate students’ meetings at IAPC may be of interest to others in a similar situation.
