ABSTRACT
Australia has contributed to the globalisation of Philosophy for Children (P4C) through the international reach of its curricular, pedagogical and professional initiatives. I outline the dissemination of these initiatives by describing Australia’s developing involvement overseas, arguing that Australians were uniquely positioned to disseminate P4C abroad: they understood, based on their experience, that a country’s educational, religious, and cultural norms complicate and enrich P4C both in the particular context and the theory and practice more generally. Thus, Australians contributed to the growth of P4C from that of a fledgling movement tethered to and radiating out from a geographical and institutional centre into a global phenomenon of multiple local sites and crisscrossing pathways that together comprise a burgeoning field.
