Philosophy 4 Children: creating a community of enquiry
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Philosophy for Children
Philosophy for Children aims to encourage young people to think critically, caringly, creatively and collaboratively.
It helps teachers to build a 'community of enquiry' where participants create and enquire into their own questions, and 'learn how to learn' in the process
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Philosophy for ChildrenCreating a Community of Enquiry
Students asking open, genuine questions
Exploring what makes a question philosophical?
Democratically choosing a question to explore
Creating a “community of enquiry”
Developing reasoning skills
Encouraging interaction and reflection
Teacher becomes facilitator
Valuing of student voice, creating environment for dialogue
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What does progress mean in thinking and dialogue?
There are many ways to show progress in thinking and dialogue skills, but here are 5 indicators to define development. The process starts with a question, and the outcome could be one of the following.
The students now:
have lots more questions
have totally changed their minds
still think what they originally thought, but with better understanding
have many different perspectives
are confused, but enriched (a good confusion)
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Philosophy for ChildrenCreating a Community of Enquiry
Developing good skills and attitudes
Sit in a circle
This emphasises equality and democracy
Agree that listening is a vital skill
Be prepared to offer your views
Respect other people’s viewpoints …
… but be prepared to challenge them
Let your teacher become the “guide on the side”, not “the sage on the stage”
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Developing listening skills
Ask students to sit back to back
Give one member of the pair a picture or diagram
They then have to describe it to their partner
The partner has to draw it for themselves, from the description (no looking!)
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Developing the question
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Creating a Community of Enquiry
•Look at the picture
• Describe what you see
• What questions does it raise?
• Share and record the questions
• The questions need to be philosophical
• They need to make sense even if the picture where not there• When you have listed all the questions, you vote
• Choose the one you want to debate as a class
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Discussion tips
In your discussion, play netball with ideas, not ping-pong!
Don’t practice “rubble-thinking”; try to make every point move on, constructing new ideas
To speak, open your hand on your knee
The speaker chooses who will respond to her/him
Before speaking, state your aim:
“I’m going to agree with …., because …”“I’m going to move the debate on, by ….”