Parameters and Standards of Reminding Thinking to Children Based on the Quranic Verses: an Attempt to Localize Philosophy for Children

Philosophy for children was globally introduced by Lipman in 1970, and was shortly afterward welcomed by official and non-official centers of education in various countries. Since then, Lipman’s philosophy for children (PFC) has been localized in accordance with cultural and environmental conditions of various countries. In Iran, however, the process of localization of PFC was somehow slow and in some cases lacks consistency with religious and Quranic foundations. Thus, the present article tries to consider the Islamic culture extracted from the Quran and offer a reproductive approach to introducing a local PFC for Iran.
To do so, we used descriptive phenomenology and analyzed the data using Colaizzi method. The research data were classified into eight general sections that present the parameters of “reminding thinking” for children: (1) goals; (2) typology of thinking and the related attributes; (3) class name; (4) enacting laws; (5) class structure; (6) presenting intellectual content; (7) subject of thinking; and (8) the role and executive devices of the educator of PFC.