Walter Omar Kohan
Email: wokohan@gmail.com

He received his doctorate from Iberoamericana University, Mexico, in 1996. His mentor was Matthew Lipman.  Did post-doctoral Studies in Philosophy at the University of Paris 8 and was a research fellow at EPCD, at the University of British Columbia, 2017-8. He has been visiting professor at universities in Italy, France, Argentina, Mexico and Chile. Since 2002, he has been a Full Professor of Philosophy of Education at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). Since 2000 a Senior Research member 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). Since 2003, directs the Project “Philosophy at the Childhood of School Life” at CAPES, Brazilian Ministry of Education.

Dr. Kohan was president (1999-2001) and member of the Advisory Board of the International Council for Philosophical Inquiry with Children (ICPIC) and, since 2005, has been the co-editor of Childhood & Philosophy, ICPIC journal (http://www.e-publicacoes.uerj.br/index.php/childhood).

Dr. Kohan has presented papers or lectures in more than 200 conferences all over Brazil and Latin America, and in countries like Canada, United States, Belgium, Spain, Sweden, France, Portugal, Italy, Iceland, Greece, New Zealand, Romany, Moldavia, England, Russia, South Africa, India, South Korea, Japan and China. Since 2002, he has organized the Biennial International Colloquiums of Philosophy and Education in Rio de Janeiro. He has published over 100 peer reviewed articles, chapters and books as author, co-author or editor in Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, English and French. 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); Paulo Freire. A philosophical biography (Bloomsbury, 2021). Last book in Portuguese: Paulo Freire um menino de 100 anos (NEFI, 2018, free download at filoeduc.org/editora)