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Volume 4, No. 1

Thinking: The Journal of Philosophy for Children

Bandman, Bertram. “The Adolescent’s Rights to Freedom, Care and Enlightenment.” 21­-27.

French, Peter. “Moral Education, Liberal Education, and Model Building: Two Theses Concerning the Relationship Between Education and Morality.” 1­-18.

Geach, P.T. “On Mashing a Flame Leap from Mind to Mind,” from “On Teaching Logic” in Philosophy. 29.

Guin, Philip. Review of Nobody Can Teach Anyone Anything by W.R. Wees. 48­-49.

Guin, Philip. “Reports From the Classroom: Ellen Kellenberger’s Kindergarten, Secaucus, N.J.” 50.

Jarrell, Randall. “What Are We To Tell the Students?” from The War. 29.

Ludwig Weinstein. “A Memoir.” 29.

Martens, Ekkhard. “Children’s Philosophy Or Is Motivation for Doing …

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Thinking: The Journal of Philosophy for Children

Auden, W.H. and T.C. Worsley. “Education Today­ and Tomorrow.” 57-­64.

Cary, Joyce. “When Simple Induction is Not the Answer,” from A House of Children. 24.

Cobbett, William. “An Eight-­Year-­Old Exacts Justice With a Red Herring,” from The Autobiography of William Cobett. 22.

Cohen, Morris R. and Ernest Nagel. “Deductive Surprise,” from An Introduction to Logic and Scientific Method. 22.

Dewey, John. “Can Institutions Promote Individual Growth?” from Reconstruction in Philosophy. 25.

Coleridge, S.T. “Thinking as Pure Energy,” from Notebooks. 24.

Durkheim, Emile. “Childhood.” 6-­9.

Greene, Graham. “On Discovering One Can Read a Book,” from “The Lost Childhood” in Collected Essays. …

Volume 4, No. 2

Thinking: The Journal of Philosophy for Children

DuPuis, Adrian M. and Robert B. Nordberg. “Education as Ordering A Thomistic­Augustinian View,” from Philosophy and Education and Education: A Total View. 29.

DuPuis, Adrian M. and A. Gray Thompson. “P4C as ‘Pre­Secondary Philosophy’.” 33­35.

Education Commission of the States, The. “The Higher Level Skills: Tomorrow’s ‘Basics’,” from The Information Society: Are High Schools Graduates Ready? 22-­28.

Hare, R.M. “Clarifying Moral Meanings,” from “Language and Moral Education” in New Essays on the Philosophy of Education. 30.

Joos, Martin. “In Explanation of Just About Everything,” from The Five Clocks. 29.

Keen, Sam. “Childhood and Wonder,” from Apology for Wonder. 48-­54.

Martin, …

Looking For Meaning (Manual) By Matthew Lipman And Ann Margaret Sharp, Matthew Lipman, Ann Margaret Sharp

Elementary School Curriculum

The philosophical exercises in this manual offer practice in generalization, classification, concept development, making comparisons, offering counterexamples, using analogies and contradiction. Reasoning skills are employed in writing exercises, and in enhancing students' judgment. Discussion plans help students explore philosophical concepts central to their experience, such as friendship, families, honesty and autonomy. All reasoning skills and philosophical concepts are explained in nontechnical language.