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Philosophy for Children

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Date: October 17, 2017Author: Herringthorpe 0 Comments

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PHILOSOPHY FOR CHILDREN

The basics of philosophy for children are straightforward. Children share some reading, listening or viewing with their teacher. The children take some thinking time to devise their own questions. They choose a question that interests them and, with the teacher’s help, discuss it together.

The teacher is concerned with getting children to welcome the diversity of each others’ initial views and to use those as the start of a process of that involves the children questioning assumptions, developing opinions with supporting reasons, analysing significant concepts and generally applying the best reasoning and judgement they are capable of to the question they have chosen.

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