Jana Mohr Lone is the director and founder of the University of Washington Center for Philosophy for Children, an academic research center dedicated to research and practice in philosophy for children and philosophy of childhood, and she is an Affiliate Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Washington. Jana is the author of The Philosophical Child, which explores ways that adults can stimulate philosophical conversations about children's questions and which has been translated into four languages; co-author of the textbook Philosophy in Education: Questioning and Dialogue in Schools; and the co-editor of the book Philosophy and Education: Introducing Philosophy to Young People. Her new book Seen and Not Heard will be published in 2021.
Since 1995 she has taught philosophy in classrooms from preschool to college and beyond. A frequent writer and speaker about precollege philosophy, Jana is the founding president of PLATO (Philosophy Learning and Teaching Organization) and the founding editor-in-chief of the journal Questions: Philosophy for Young People.
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