In January 2016, Dr. Katz launched a pilot P4C program, placing a graduate student in one of the local high schools. The following year, in January 2017, she expanded this program. Two graduate students with experience in pre-college philosophy were placed in local schools: one introduced philosophy to a group of first grade students at […]
P4CTexas is a group of dedicated educators–some more intimately connected to philosophy than others–who wish to provide an engaged relationship between the Texas universities and the Texas K-12 schools by introducing philosophy into the pre-college classroom. P4CTexas came into being when Claire Katz, Professor of Philosophy and Women’s and Gender Studies at Texas A&M, had hoped […]
The Aggie School of Athens was founded in 2016 as a week-long summer camp for teens and tweens from the Bryan/College Station community and beyond. The camp was initially conceived of as a way to bridge the gap between college and pre-college classrooms, allowing underserved populations early access to the kinds of humanistic inquiry that […]