Karin Murris is a Dutch philosopher working in Britain as a consultant philosopher in education, counselling and business.  She studied philosophy at Leiden (BA Hons) and London (MA) and philosophy of education at Hull (PhD).  She conducts Socratic dialogues, has her own philosophical counselling practice, and teaches philosophy to all ages.  She has written a teacher's manual: Teaching Philosophy with Picture Books.  Her PhD thesis, entitled Metaphors of the Child's Mind: teaching philosophy to young children - is a philosophical reflection upon philosophy with children.  She has helped to set up the British training programme in philosophy with children and the British Society of Consultant Philosophers (SCP) in 1995 and is co-director of Aporeia - an international dialogue consultancy. She is recognised as a Socratic Dialogue facilitator by the Dutch Association for Philosophical Practice (VFP) and she is a recognised trainer by the International Council for Philosophical Inquiry with Children (ICPIC) Email
KM here

Dr Joanna Haynes is a senior lecturer in education at the College of St Mark and St John, Plymouth. She studied philosophy at Kent University and qualified as a primary teacher in 1976. She spent 16 years teaching in primary schools, first in Glasgow and then in inner city Bristol. She completed a Masters Degree in education at Bristol University before moving to Devon in 1992 to work in teacher education. Joanna has been involving primary school children in philosophical enquiry for the last six years and this teaching also provides the basis for her PhD studies. Email
JH here

Karin and Joanna are about to publish
Storywise: thinking through picture books, a resource for teaching philosophy
in the classroom. For details see: www.dialogueworks.co.uk

For further information about teaching
philosophy to children in Britain go to: www.ndirect.co.uk/~sapere 

Now click Listening,
Juggling and Travelling in Philsophical Space