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Ege Eğitim Dergisi, vol.25, no.2, pp.133-150, 2024 (TRDizin)
Philosophy for Children (P4C), developed by Lipman in the 1960s, is a process that fosters children's independent thinking, encourages teacher-student dialogue, promotes questioning skills in children, and utilizes open-ended Socratic questioning by teachers. The objective of this study is to examine the research published in the field of education related to P4C using bibliometric mapping analysis. To achieve this, the study analyzed the overall trends in scientific studies on the P4C concept in the Web of Science database up to the present. VOSviewer was employed to analyze and visualize the obtained data. The research findings revealed that the highest number of scientific studies on P4C were conducted in the USA in 2017. Within the scope of this study P4C, which is multidisciplinary in nature, is limite tto educational research and it was observed that the concept primarily appeared in the subject areas of philosophy, history of social sciences, interdisciplinary social sciences, linguistics, developmental psychology, and educational psychology. Furthermore, P4C demonstrated connections with other domains such as science education, teacher education, school leadership, critical thinking and work ethics, self-regulated learning, parenting, religious education, and phonological awareness.