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(2002) Philosophy For Children In China: A Late Preliminary Anti-Report, David K. Kennedy, Walter Omar Kohan Jan 2002

(2002) Philosophy For Children In China: A Late Preliminary Anti-Report, David K. Kennedy, Walter Omar Kohan

Collected Papers of David Kennedy

We were part of a group of five academics visiting China in July 2000, in order to conduct two workshops in Philosophy for Children in two widely disparate cities - Kunming, in the ethnically diverse, far-from-Beijing southeastern province of Yunnan; and Shanghai, long known as the city where East meets West. Although we could not even read street signs, much less speak at all except through the kindness of interpreters, yet we sensed that Kunming and Shanghai were two different realities of contemporary China. The workshop in Kunming was conducted at the Southern Railway School, where P4C is being spearheaded …

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6. Geraldo (Novel), Ann Margaret Sharp Jan 2000

6. Geraldo (Novel), Ann Margaret Sharp

Later Elementary School Curriculum

Migrating to a new country brings about enormous changes in Geraldo's life. Not only is there a new language to learn, but Geraldo must make new friends and adjust to significant cultural differences.

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7. Discovering Our Voice: A Manual To Accompany 'Geraldo', Ann Margaret Sharp, Laurance J. Splitter Jan 2000

7. Discovering Our Voice: A Manual To Accompany 'Geraldo', Ann Margaret Sharp, Laurance J. Splitter

Later Elementary School Curriculum

Geraldo is a story about what an immigrant undergoes when he leaves one culture and tries to 'join' another culture. An immigrant suffers a triple disruption: he loses his sense of place, he enters into an alien language, and he finds himself surrounded by beings whose social behavior, norms and traditions are very unlike, and sometimes even offensive to his own. The explanation of the leading ideas in this manual help students and teachers explore the philosophical themes in Geraldo. The discussion plans, exercises, and activities are designed to foster and cultivate the process of philosophical dialogue in the classroom.

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(2000.3) Geraldo (Novel), Ann Margaret Sharp Jan 2000

(2000.3) Geraldo (Novel), Ann Margaret Sharp

Collected Papers of Ann Margaret Sharp

Migrating to a new country brings about enormous changes in Geraldo's life. Not only is there a new language to learn, but Geraldo must make new friends and adjust to significant cultural differences.

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(2000.4) Discovering Our Voice: Instructional Manual To Accompany 'Geraldo', Ann Margaret Sharp, Laurance J. Splitter Jan 2000

(2000.4) Discovering Our Voice: Instructional Manual To Accompany 'Geraldo', Ann Margaret Sharp, Laurance J. Splitter

Collected Papers of Ann Margaret Sharp

Geraldo is a story about what an immigrant undergoes when he leaves one culture and tries to 'join' another culture. An immigrant suffers a triple disruption: he loses his sense of place, he enters into an alien language, and he finds himself surrounded by beings whose social behavior, norms and traditions are very unlike, and sometimes even offensive to his own. The explanation of the leading ideas in this manual help students and teachers explore the philosophical themes in Geraldo. The discussion plans, exercises, and activities are designed to foster and cultivate the process of philosophical dialogue in the classroom.

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(2000) Concepts, Communities And The Tools Of Good Thinking, Laurance J. Splitter Jan 2000

(2000) Concepts, Communities And The Tools Of Good Thinking, Laurance J. Splitter

Collected Papers of Laurance J. Splitter

There is a strong connection, both pedagogic and conceptual, between the discipline of philosophy and the practice of thinking – or more precisely, the normative practice of good thinking. An understanding of this connection lends weight to the argument that philosophy needs to be a regular part of the educational landscape, not just for a tiny minority of college students, but for the overwhelming majority of school students – younger the better. Philosophical inquiry has three dimensions: an appropriate classroom environment (patterns of interaction), appropriate tools and strategies (specific cognitive and meta-cognitive moves), and content which is intriguing and accessible …

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(2000) Thinking, Inquiry And Community: Teacher Perspectives On Philosophy For Children: Part I, Laurance J. Splitter Jan 2000

(2000) Thinking, Inquiry And Community: Teacher Perspectives On Philosophy For Children: Part I, Laurance J. Splitter

Collected Papers of Laurance J. Splitter

This report is the first part of a longer Report into the state of Philosophy for Children in Australia gathered from data collected in 1994-5. It gives a picture of the early spread of P4C in this country and how teachers approached their task. The second part of the Report appears in the next issue of Critical and Creative Thinking.

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(2000) Thinking, Inquiry And Community: Teacher Perspectives On Philosophy For Children: Part Ii, Laurance J. Splitter Jan 2000

(2000) Thinking, Inquiry And Community: Teacher Perspectives On Philosophy For Children: Part Ii, Laurance J. Splitter

Collected Papers of Laurance J. Splitter

This report is the second part of a longer Report into the state of Philosophy for Children in Australia gathered from data collected in 1994-5. It gives a picture of the early spread of P4C in this country and how teachers approached their task. The first part of the Report appears in the previous issue of Critical and Creative Thinking.

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(2000) The Psychodynamics Of Community Of Inquiry And Educational Reform: A Cross-Cultural Perspective, Pavel Lushyn, David K. Kennedy Jan 2000

(2000) The Psychodynamics Of Community Of Inquiry And Educational Reform: A Cross-Cultural Perspective, Pavel Lushyn, David K. Kennedy

Collected Papers of David Kennedy

Community of inquiry is a ''whole" pedagogy, in that it recognizes the systemic nature of group process, the congruence of personal and social systems, and the identity-in-difference of thought and feeling, self and other, and individual and group. Above all it recognizes the fundamental urge-however tortuous and conflicted in its outworking-of both individual and social systems for self-actualizing transformation; for the chaotic passage to higher, both more inclusive and more diversified, levels of integration. In this regard it provides a deep-structural theory, not just for the democratic personality, but for democratic systems as well. It produces individuals who are capable …

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(2000) Notes From The Field: Where Was The Doll Before It Was In The Dollmaker’S Mind?, David K. Kennedy, Matthew Schertz Jan 2000

(2000) Notes From The Field: Where Was The Doll Before It Was In The Dollmaker’S Mind?, David K. Kennedy, Matthew Schertz

Collected Papers of David Kennedy

The following discussion took place in November 1999, in a first-grade classroom at Edgemont School in Montclair, New Jersey. It was led by David Kennedy, a professor at Montclair State University, and Matthew Schertz, a doctoral student at lAPC, and transcribed by Andrew Kenny and Henry Minarick, who are Masters of Education students at Montclair State University.

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Wild Boy (1998) By Mordicai Gerstein, Gareth B. Matthews Jan 1999

Wild Boy (1998) By Mordicai Gerstein, Gareth B. Matthews

Picture Books

Once there was a boy who lived alone, without a mother or father or any friends, in a forest in Southern France. He was naked. He didn’t even know what clothes were. He didn’t know he was a boy. He didn’t know what people were. He was wild. When a group of hunters discovered the boy, they delivered him to scientists in Paris, who eventually gave up trying to communicate with him. The boy was taken in by Dr. Itard and his housekeeper, Madame Guerin, who taught him to dress himself, to read and write simple words, and help around …

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(1999) Thinking For Oneself And With Others, David K. Kennedy Jan 1999

(1999) Thinking For Oneself And With Others, David K. Kennedy

Collected Papers of David Kennedy

The most distinctive feature of the theory and practice of community of philosophical inquiry, which at first glance appears contradictory, is how it promotes both communal, intersubjective meaning and thinking for oneself. Typically we think of the two as, if not opposed, then not particularly related. Thinking for oneself is usually associated with 18th century Western Enlightenment - the automatic problematization of collectively held beliefs - skepticism, and individualism. Community is usually associated with the affirmation of collectively held beliefs and assumptions, and with the necessary sacrifice of individual opinion for a greater good. Human dialogue is the intersubjective location …

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Lulu And The Flying Babies (1988) By Posy Simmonds, Gareth B. Matthews Jan 1998

Lulu And The Flying Babies (1988) By Posy Simmonds, Gareth B. Matthews

Picture Books

It was snowing by the time Lulu’s family arrived at the park, so her parents took them to the museum next door. Lulu sulked and protested: “Don’t want to see the pictures!” so her parents left her sitting on a couch. A winged cherub climbed down from a painting hanging above her and flew Lulu into the winter scene of a Flemish painting, then into other paintings where they splashed in the sea, growled at a tiger, rode a horse, and fell off a cliff. Artists, poets, and writers give us ways of escaping our world, but they also give …

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Will Philosophy For Children Take Hold In Mainland China? Observations And Thoughts On The July, 1997 Workshop In Kunming, China, Deng Peng, Zhang Shiya, Liao Boqin Jan 1997

Will Philosophy For Children Take Hold In Mainland China? Observations And Thoughts On The July, 1997 Workshop In Kunming, China, Deng Peng, Zhang Shiya, Liao Boqin

Collected Papers of Philip C. Guin

This report on the first philosophy for children workshop in the People’s Republic of China, conducted by Philip C. Guin and Laurance Splitter 25-31 July 1997 at Southern Station Elementary School in Kunming, the capital of Yunnan Province, concludes the workshop "proved a success in every respect."

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(1997) Some Reflections On Inquiry, Community And Philosophy, Laurance J. Splitter Jan 1997

(1997) Some Reflections On Inquiry, Community And Philosophy, Laurance J. Splitter

Collected Papers of Laurance J. Splitter

Not all communities of inquiry are communities of philosophical inquiry. Still, there is something special and intrinsic about philosophy when it comes to the community of inquiry. Think of Matthew Lipman's oft-repeated claim that philosophy is the discipline that teaches children to think in the disciplines. And remember that one of his (and Dewey's) greatest insights was that children could be members of a community of inquiry. I should like to put these ideas together in the following way: irrespective of whether the inquiry engaged in by a community is philosophical, the community itself is philosophical. In short, every community …

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8. Nous (Novel), Matthew Lipman Jan 1996

8. Nous (Novel), Matthew Lipman

Later Elementary School Curriculum

Pixie has invented this short novel, which is the sequel to the story she narrated in the novel Pixie. In this story, we are introduced to an intelligent giraffe confronted with a moral dilemma. The Giraffe, whose name is Nous, thinks first of what her moral obligations would be as a person of virtuous character. Brian and Pixie, along with their classmates, try to help her by discussing what a moral education should be. In so doing they help Nous decide what to do, even though it is not a decision they favor. Matthew Lipman's Nous is a wonderful …

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9. Deciding What To Do: Instructional Manual To Accompany "Nous", Matthew Lipman Jan 1996

9. Deciding What To Do: Instructional Manual To Accompany "Nous", Matthew Lipman

Later Elementary School Curriculum

Deciding What to Do consists of a variety of exercises and discussion plans with which teachers can initiate or flesh out classroom discussion of concepts in the Nous program. The program concentrates on some of the ethical considerations children should take into account deciding what to do when faced with a moral problem.

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(1996) Pixie Meets The Pre-Socratics, Philip C. Guin Jan 1996

(1996) Pixie Meets The Pre-Socratics, Philip C. Guin

Collected Papers of Philip C. Guin

There is a relation between the development of early science and philosophy and the cognitive needs of children. Both operate with a paucity of experience, both are hypothetical and conjectural and both have the capacity for critical self-correction—the former in sensitivity to its tradition and the latter, insofar as children have access to a community of inquiry. Pixie, then, is an ideal forum for the introduction of science and philosophy in a manner similar to that in which it occurred in the Greek tradition, providing, along the way, the newness and freshness of discovery and invention.

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(1996) Education For Global Citizenship, Philip C. Guin Jan 1996

(1996) Education For Global Citizenship, Philip C. Guin

Collected Papers of Philip C. Guin

There is plenty of enthusiasm for the idea of global citizenship. There is in fact ample support for education to promote global citizenship, judging by large sections of school supply catalogs, their programs, films and books proudly and handsomely displayed. Columbia Teachers College has a program, as does Montclair State University, and our doctoral program at Iberoamericana includes a course entitled Education for Global Citizenship. All the more reason why the words of detractors seem so stark and peevish - especially those of many conservative political opponents who shower disdain on globalisms of any sort, for example, on the 1995 …

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19. Sources And References For Pixie, Matthew Lipman Jan 1996

19. Sources And References For Pixie, Matthew Lipman

Early Elementary School Curriculum

This sequential bibliography matches the 1981 edition of Pixie page by page. It contains both sources—works that influenced Matthew Lipman in writing the novel, references to philosophical works he and Ann Margaret Sharp recommend to explore the novels’ philosophical themes, and brief commentary on them by Lipman.

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(1996) The Practice Of Philosophy In The Classroom, Laurance J. Splitter, Ann Margaret Sharp Jan 1996

(1996) The Practice Of Philosophy In The Classroom, Laurance J. Splitter, Ann Margaret Sharp

Collected Papers of Laurance J. Splitter

Philosophy for Children is at once strongly child-centred and highly teacher-sensitive. It encourages students to delve into, and build upon, ideas, concepts and problems that they themselves choose as both interesting and, in some sense, important. Yet it is the teacher who, at least in the first instance, must encourage her students to talk and to listen, who must weave into a coherent form their disparate thoughts and ideas, and who must exemplify modes of thoughtful and reasonable behaviour.

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Fiona’S Bee (1975) By Beverly Keller, Gareth B. Matthews Jan 1995

Fiona’S Bee (1975) By Beverly Keller, Gareth B. Matthews

Chapter Books

Young Fiona saves her money to buy a dog dish, which she puts on her front porch and fills with water every day, hoping to make friends with a dog who might stop by for a drink, and with its human walker. But when a bee lands in the water and nearly drowns, Fiona's rescue results in her making a whole group of new friends in an unexpected way. Beverly Keller's delightfully offbeat story nudges us to think about what kind of respect we owe to creatures like bees, what kinds of animals can be pets, and what the limits …

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Standing Up To Mr. O. (1998) By Claudia Mills, Gareth B. Matthews Jan 1995

Standing Up To Mr. O. (1998) By Claudia Mills, Gareth B. Matthews

Middle Grades Books

Fifth-grade Maggie's refusal to dissect a worm in science class is the first step on a philosophically-complicated path of moral awakening that will lead to conflict with her family, her friends, and her school. Claudia Mills’ middle-grades novel Standing Up to Mr. O. is an ideal text to introduce a discussion of moral issues concerning the treatment of animals. Almost all the points one would want to include in such a discussion are raised here, and they appear in a way that makes them immediately accessible both to teenagers and to their parents and teachers.

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(1995) Philosophy For Children Planning Workshop Report, Laurance J. Splitter Jan 1995

(1995) Philosophy For Children Planning Workshop Report, Laurance J. Splitter

Collected Papers of Laurance J. Splitter

On the weekend of October 6-8, 1995, the Centre of Philosophy for Children at ACER conducted a "strategic planning workshop" which brought together 25 philosophers, teachers, principals, psychologists and teacher educators from all Australian states and territories, plus New Zealand. Its purpose was to address a number of key questions relating to the future development of philosophy in Australian schools.

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(1995) Review Of The Philosophy Of Childhood By Gareth B. Matthews, David K. Kennedy Jan 1995

(1995) Review Of The Philosophy Of Childhood By Gareth B. Matthews, David K. Kennedy

Collected Papers of David Kennedy

In this book, Matthews works the vast, vaguely contiguous fields of academic philosophy, developmental psychology, cognitive science, child study, and education in his own unique and asymmetrical way. His project has a Wittgensteinian flavor; he is an expert at cleaning up muddles, or carefully tugging apart things that, after he's done them, we see didn't belong together anyway. The chapter themes are wide ranging-from children doing philosophy to the theories of reigning child epistemologists, to children's art, to children's rights, to children's understanding of death, to the philosophy in some children's literature, to whether children think morally, to the continuity …

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Burglar Bill (1979) By Allan And Janet Ahlberg, Gareth B. Matthews Jan 1995

Burglar Bill (1979) By Allan And Janet Ahlberg, Gareth B. Matthews

Picture Books

Burglar Bill lives alone with a house full of stolen property. Every night after supper he goes off to work, stealing things. Every dawn he comes home with his sack full of stolen goods and sits down to his breakfast of stolen toast and marmalade and stolen coffee. Some of my favorite children’s stories are written in a style I call “philosophical whimsy.” In the story of Burglar Bill, the whimsy is aimed at encouraging us to think about the life of a full-time thief as if it were an almost boringly normal sort of middleclass life. The story invites …

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(1994) Introduction To “The Echo Of The Voice Of The Children” By Catherine Young Silva, Philip C. Guin Jan 1994

(1994) Introduction To “The Echo Of The Voice Of The Children” By Catherine Young Silva, Philip C. Guin

Collected Papers of Philip C. Guin

Guin recounts his friendship with Catherine Young Silva, who received her Master's degree in Philosophy for Children, at Montclair State College and later established and directed the Brazilian Center of Philosophy for Children in São Paulo, Brazil. He explains her understanding of the political importance of children's philosophy and his process of editing her curricular philosophical story "Catherine's Story."

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(1994) The Growth Of Self-Esteem Within A Community Of Inquiry, Philip C. Guin Jan 1994

(1994) The Growth Of Self-Esteem Within A Community Of Inquiry, Philip C. Guin

Collected Papers of Philip C. Guin

Feeling good about oneself is, today, a fashionable way of describing self-esteem. Collections of more or less discrete feeling states, whether of happiness, confidence, competence, success, well-being and others, supposedly add up to feeling good about oneself. Accordingly, a villain and a saint might implausibly find themselves in company, as belonging to the class of those enjoying self-esteem. That both may be victims of self-deception, pathological cases, is irrelevant, for to the extent that self-esteem is tied to feeling states, virtually anyone may be a candidate. What makes this idea of self-esteem slippery is that one may possess it irrespective …

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(1994) The Five Communities, David K. Kennedy Jan 1994

(1994) The Five Communities, David K. Kennedy

Collected Papers of David Kennedy

Those of us who have experienced the joy and terror of the intensive formation of a philosophical community of inquiry (COI) over an extended period, understand intuitively that it is a process of development which has certain characteristic structures and patterns. These can be glossed in a number of ways, all of which will be metaphors, if only because any given moment in the life of the COI is an instant of vertiginous freedom. The five structural dimensions of the COI which I am identifying are gesture, language, mind, love, and interest. I want to call them "communities" because each …

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(1993) The Growth Of Self-Esteem Within A Community Of Inquiry, Philip C. Guin Jan 1993

(1993) The Growth Of Self-Esteem Within A Community Of Inquiry, Philip C. Guin

Collected Papers of Philip C. Guin

Feeling good about oneself is, today, a fashionable way of describing self-esteem. Collections of more or less discrete feeling states, whether of happiness, confidence, competence, success, well-being and others, supposedly add up to feeling good about oneself. Accordingly, a villain and a saint might implausibly find themselves in company, as belonging to the class of those enjoying self-esteem. That both may be victims of self-deception, pathological cases, is irrelevant, for to the extent that self-esteem is tied to feeling states, virtually anyone may be a candidate. What makes this idea of self-esteem slippery is that one may possess it irrespective …

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