In close collaboration with the late Matthew Lipman, Ann Margaret Sharp pioneered the theory and practice of 'the community of philosophical inquiry' (CPI) as a way of practicing 'Philosophy for Children' and prepared thousands of philosophers and teachers throughout the world in this practice.

Maughn Rollins Gregory is Professor of Educational Foundations, Montclair State University, U.S.A.

Megan Jane Laverty is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Education, Teachers College, Columbia University, U.S.A.

Acknowledgements Contributors Editorial Introduction: Ann Margaret Sharp: A Life Teaching Community Where I Learned Community of Inquiry: Ann Margaret Sharp in Conversation with Peter Shea PART I Ann Margaret Sharp on Pragmatism and the Community of Inquiry 1. The Theory of Education Made Flesh (Philip Cam) 2. What is a Community of Inquiry? (Ann Margaret Sharp) 3. Self-Transformation in the Community of Inquiry (Ann Margaret Sharp) PART II Ann Margaret Sharp on Philosophy of Education, Pedagogy, Teacher Education and the Community of Inquiry 4. The Teacher as Liberator: Ann Margaret Sharp between Philosophy of Education and Teacher Education (Stefano Oliverio) 5. Education and Culture: A Nietzschean Perspective (Ann Margaret Sharp) 6. A Letter to a Novice Teacher: Teaching Harry Stottlemeier's Discovery (Ann Margaret Sharp) PART III Ann Margaret Sharp on Ethics, Personhood, and the Community of Inquiry 7. Living in, and with, our Relationships to Others (Laurance J. Splitter) 8. Philosophy for Children and Development of Ethical values (Ann Margaret Sharp) 9. Looking at Others' Faces (Ann Margaret Sharp and Megan Jane Laverty) PART IV Ann Margaret Sharp on Feminism, Women, Children and the Community of Inquiry 10. Education as Liberation (María Teresa de la Garza) 11. Towards a Feminist Philosophy of Education: Simone Weil on Force, Goodness, work, Method and Time (Ann Margaret Sharp and Maughn Rollins Gregory) PART V Ann Margaret Sharp on Religion, Spirituality, Ritual, Aesthetics and the Community of Inquiry 12. Do we Put What is Precious at Risk through Philosophic Conversation? (Peter Shea) 13. Silence and Speech in Pixie (Ann Margaret Sharp) 14. Is there an Essence of Education? (Ann Margaret Sharp) PART VI Ann Margaret Sharp on Caring Thinking, Education of the Emotions and the Community of Inquiry 15. Caring Thinking, Education of Emotions, and the Community of Inquiry: a Psychological Perspective (Richard E. Morehouse) 16. The Other Dimension of Caring Thinking (Ann Margaret Sharp) PART VII Ann Margaret Sharp on Social-Political, Democratic, International/Global Education and the Community of Inquiry 17. Social-Political Dimensions of the Community of Philosophical Inquiry in an Age of Globalization (Jennifer Glaser) 18. The Role of Intelligent Sympathy in Educating for Global Ethical Consciousness (Ann Margaret Sharp) 19. The Community of Inquiry: Education for Democracy (Ann Margaret Sharp) Poem: The Community of InquiryAnn Margaret Sharp