Viktor Johansson, PhD, is Senior Lecturer in Pedagogy at Södertörn University in Sweden. He has worked on issues in philosophy of education, in particular on the role of children’s literature in philosophy and early childhood education, as well as on pedagogical relations between children and adults.

"In a world saturated, burdened even, by educational facts and figures, Johansson reminds teachers of the wisdom of children’s stories, and of the stories that children tell. Literature and Philosophical Play in Early Childhood Education offers a pedagogical poetry for each and every teacher, in any educational context, to enrich the curriculum, and to enrich the ways in which they make sense of their lives as pedagogues through poetic questioning."Dr Andrew Gibbons, Associate Professor, AUT University, New Zealand."For all those interested in the educational role of philosophy (both as theory and as practice) and, more generally, in the relationships between education, philosophy and childhood, Literature and Philosophical Play in Early Childhood Education is an endless source of inspiration and questioning. Full of artistic and poetical testimonies, this book not only explores what a philosophical education of childhood could look like, but also and mainly what form a childhood of a new philosophical education would have: one informed by the art and joy of listening and attention to childhood."Walter Omar Kohan, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: There are Stories1. The State of the Learning Soul: Literature and in and as Educational Research2. An Entangled Life with Children’s Existential Perplexity3. Platonic Caves, Educational Lies, and Good Enough Mothering4. Fiction and Reality in Children’s Artful Play5. Passionate Immediacy and Dinosaur Philosophy6. Wildly Wise in the Terrible Moment7. A Plea for a Literary Posthumanism Between Theory, Narrative, and Life8. The Motherly Poetry of Pedagogy

Viktor Johansson, PhD, is Senior Lecturer in Pedagogy at Södertörn University in Sweden. He has worked on issues in philosophy of education, in particular on the role of children’s literature in philosophy and early childhood education, as well as on pedagogical relations between children and adults.

"In a world saturated, burdened even, by educational facts and figures, Johansson reminds teachers of the wisdom of children’s stories, and of the stories that children tell. Literature and Philosophical Play in Early Childhood Education offers a pedagogical poetry for each and every teacher, in any educational context, to enrich the curriculum, and to enrich the ways in which they make sense of their lives as pedagogues through poetic questioning."Dr Andrew Gibbons, Associate Professor, AUT University, New Zealand."For all those interested in the educational role of philosophy (both as theory and as practice) and, more generally, in the relationships between education, philosophy and childhood, Literature and Philosophical Play in Early Childhood Education is an endless source of inspiration and questioning. Full of artistic and poetical testimonies, this book not only explores what a philosophical education of childhood could look like, but also and mainly what form a childhood of a new philosophical education would have: one informed by the art and joy of listening and attention to childhood."Walter Omar Kohan, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: There are Stories1. The State of the Learning Soul: Literature and in and as Educational Research2. An Entangled Life with Children’s Existential Perplexity3. Platonic Caves, Educational Lies, and Good Enough Mothering4. Fiction and Reality in Children’s Artful Play5. Passionate Immediacy and Dinosaur Philosophy6. Wildly Wise in the Terrible Moment7. A Plea for a Literary Posthumanism Between Theory, Narrative, and Life8. The Motherly Poetry of Pedagogy

Viktor Johansson, PhD, is Senior Lecturer in Pedagogy at Södertörn University in Sweden. He has worked on issues in philosophy of education, in particular on the role of children’s literature in philosophy and early childhood education, as well as on pedagogical relations between children and adults.

"In a world saturated, burdened even, by educational facts and figures, Johansson reminds teachers of the wisdom of children’s stories, and of the stories that children tell. Literature and Philosophical Play in Early Childhood Education offers a pedagogical poetry for each and every teacher, in any educational context, to enrich the curriculum, and to enrich the ways in which they make sense of their lives as pedagogues through poetic questioning."Dr Andrew Gibbons, Associate Professor, AUT University, New Zealand."For all those interested in the educational role of philosophy (both as theory and as practice) and, more generally, in the relationships between education, philosophy and childhood, Literature and Philosophical Play in Early Childhood Education is an endless source of inspiration and questioning. Full of artistic and poetical testimonies, this book not only explores what a philosophical education of childhood could look like, but also and mainly what form a childhood of a new philosophical education would have: one informed by the art and joy of listening and attention to childhood."Walter Omar Kohan, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction: There are Stories1. The State of the Learning Soul: Literature and in and as Educational Research2. An Entangled Life with Children’s Existential Perplexity3. Platonic Caves, Educational Lies, and Good Enough Mothering4. Fiction and Reality in Children’s Artful Play5. Passionate Immediacy and Dinosaur Philosophy6. Wildly Wise in the Terrible Moment7. A Plea for a Literary Posthumanism Between Theory, Narrative, and Life8. The Motherly Poetry of Pedagogy