Children as Philosophers: Learning Through Enquiry and Dialogue in the Primary Classroom

ISBN-13: 9780415446815 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 176 str.

Joanna Haynes

Opis

This work addresses the issue of developing disciplined enquiry as an essential component in schooling and shows teachers how to develop this enquiry approach in their practice.

Spis treści

Preface to Second Edition  Introduction  PART I Voices from the classroom  1.Thought-provoking conversations  2.Making room for children to participate  PART II Thinking about thinking   3.A distinctive approach to thinking through dialogue  4.What kind of thinking are we teaching?  5.Thinking, democracy and citizenship  PART III Teaching through enquiry and dialogue  6.Encouraging listening  7.Respecting children’s ideas  8.Relaxing, meditating and being silent  9.Feeling for the philosophical  10.Working with different age groups  11.Holding and extending threads of thinking  12.Planning and monitoring progress in enquiry  PART IV The benefits of philosophy with children  13.Developing teaching skills through philosophy  14.Thinking and learning in the whole curriculum  15.What difference can philosophy make to learning?  References  Index

O autorze

Joanna Haynes is a Lecturer in Education Studies at the University of Plymouth.