Hello,
A big thank you to everyone who came to the Wiser Wales network meeting at Ogmore Comprehensive last week. I hope that face-to-face network meetings will continue to be well attended. I know there were many people who wanted to come along, but who were unable to do so due to other commitments - I hope you'll be able to come next time. We are in the process of arranging the next meeting, so watch this space!
This blog is intended to support our network and help it to grow by giving everyone a convenient online forum for discussion, so let's get going!
Interview with Catherine McCall who wrote the early materials for younger children whilst working with Mathew Lipman
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In this 1989 interview Dr. McCall discusses Philosophy for Children, the Community of Inquiry, reasoning, caring and compares p4c with critical thinking. Clips from this interview were used in the 1990 BBC documentary "Socrates for Six Year Olds" along with clips of an interview with Prof. Matthew
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Great animation - would make excellent starter for P4C. Thanks to Amanda Jones for this.
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Subscribe to get awesome new animations personally delivered - Be the first to watch! An old chef is slowly losing control of his hand which makes it much harder to cook. His food is no longer appreciated by customers, and he blames himself. He thinks about giving up, but a small event helps him
Wonderful starting point for P4C. Longer than usual starting point - great for language work.
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French movie On his way home from school, Simon, who is 7 years old, leads her through the streets and cafés of his neighborhood. Soon, Song Fang and Simon share an imaginary world: a strange red balloon follows them, please contribute to http://www.wix.com/gratefulgrave/gratefulgrave
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The boy is sad and lonely in his tiny planet. He hopes those flying stars will someday bring some good news about his lost brother. But they don't... He wants to fly away & search for his brother. But he can't.... He can't break away from his karma. Its him who must light his planet and keep the uni
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Angela, Just to say how much I enjoyed the Level 1 course in Trinity College the other week. I've held my first 2 enquiries with a Y8 class now and was really impressed with how quickly the children agreed and monitored their own rules and with the quality of questions that they arrived at :) Stimuli and most popular questions were: a) Japanese woodcut and " Do artists tend to draw from their experience or their imagination?" and the following day ( after wwwebi) b) "The Professor and the Ferryman" from the Sapere book and " What would it be like to live in a world without knowledge?" This latter question was especially fruitful, leading to discussions about the nature of knowledge and its acquisition, whether knowledge per se could be good or evil, and relative values of different kinds of knowledge!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Sue, for all these great ideas - some truly inspiring stuff. It is greatly appreciated!
ReplyDeleteIn response to Jason's comment on 22 March:
ReplyDeleteI am really glad that you enjoyed the course and that you've managed to get going with P4C so soon. I am impressed that you used such an unusual stimulus - a Japanese woodcut - for an early enquiry. Your classes are coming up with fabulous questions already. Did you do a session specifically around questioning? It's also great that you've used the SAPERE Handbook for a stimulus. The Handbook is an amazing resource and point of reference to keep at your side.
With regards to what you said about your pupils' response to establishing/monitoring rules, when I first started doing P4C I was always amazed by how responsible children are in this respect. It does seem like a huge leap of faith - handing so much responsibility over to the pupils - but, from my own experience and from what teachers say, it really does work well. Keep blogging and let us know how it's going!