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Catherine C. McCall BA (Hons) MA TEFL MSc PhD FRSA

President of Stichting SOPHIA: The European Foundation for Doing Philosophy with Children and Director of EPIC, Dr. McCall trained as a philosopher and psychologist at Trinity College, University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology and Manchester University. In 1984 she pioneered the practise of philosophising with young children in the USA, and from 1985- 86 whilst a Professor in Montclair USA, she introduced Philosophy for Children to the UK, Eire, France, and Spain through a series of International Training Workshops. She was appointed as the External Expert to the Government in Values and Character Education for the Sate of New Jersey, USA 1985-86. The 1990 BBC documentary “Socrates for Six year olds” featured Dr. McCall’s CoPI work with young children in the USA. In 1990 Dr. McCall created M.Phil. and Ph.D. degrees in Philosophical Inquiry at Glasgow University.

In 2005 Dr. McCall was invited to present the CoPI method to the Scottish Parliament. She has been a Visiting Professor at: The Sorbonne; The Technical University of Barcelona; The University of South Carolina, USA; The Polish Academy of Sciences; Malta University; The Continuing Education University of Iceland; The University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands

See:

http://strath.academia.edu/CatherineMcCall

http://sophia.eu.org/

http://www.strath.ac.uk/cll/cpd/copi/