I hope that everyone has had a great summer. The Wiser Wales Team wishes Angela Hill well and thanks her for the incredible body of work she has developed over the past couple of years. We’ll miss you Angela!
My name is Mark Charman and during this academic year, our Wiser Wales focus will be to continue supporting schools in cascading critical and creative thinking across the curriculum via P4C, and helping them to make this approach sustainable. We’ll be using the Wiser Wales blog as a way of keeping you informed and involved. Think of the Wiser Wales online community as somewhere to share handy tips, resources, insights, links, updates and suggestions and somewhere where we’ll answer your questions. Thank you to all the contributors who register here.
There’ll be more updates to come, though for now, we know how it is at the beginning of the school term: bombardment of information. So, here’s some brief, bite-size chunks of news and information.
There’ll be more updates to come, though for now, we know how it is at the beginning of the school term: bombardment of information. So, here’s some brief, bite-size chunks of news and information.
Catch up again soon....
Mark
Local Event: Philosophy Cafe
When: 8pm-10pm, (Tomorrow), Tuesday 20th September
Where: The Gate Arts Centre, Keppoch Street, Roath, Cardiff, CF24 3JW
What: This month’s cafe speaker is Richard Jones, who will examine the topic of Economics versus Ecology - as contrasting - and perhaps conflicting - ways of seeing the world.
New Book: Nigel Warburton’s new book: A little History of Philosophy has had a good review in The Guardian Newspaper and is also featured on SAPERE’s recent newsletter. On the strength of both recommendations, I bought it. It’s great! And does what it says on the tin. It’s a clear, concise history of philosophy printed in 40 page turning, bite-size chapters (each chapter, about 3-4 pages). I’d highly recommend it to anyone who wants to get started. It’s a book that, along with Jostein Gaarder’s Sophie’s World, also makes for a good recommendation to learners (age 9+) who want to understand more about the evolution of philosophy from Socrates to the present day.
Free P4C Resource: The Human Planet, broadcast on BBC1 earlier in the year, was a breathtaking series. You can access clips on Youtube, some of which make great stimuli for enquiry as they challenge preconceptions of what is humanly possible. Learners (age 6+) respond especially well to:
Website: www.thephilosophyman.com I can’t say enough good things about Jason Buckley’s website and the free service he provides through it, which is in the spirit of sharing and developing P4C, for everyone’s benefit. Thanks Jason.
