Communication

Peter Worley has a new philosophy session: Communication, out now, here on the blog and in our Enquiries page.

Posted by Lucia Araniyasundaran on 6th July 2022 at 12:00am


Category: P4C

Tags: philosophy for children, philosophy in schools, Philosophy in the classroom, Communication

Young Philosophers do Fashion!

Our Young Philosophers Project has just completed its third year.  On our most recent trip, we took our group to visit the Istituto Marangon - a school of fashion, in Shoreditch.  There we learned a great deal about what the fashion insiders like to call 'The Industry', and where the inspiration for everyone's taste and choice of clothes come from... who's deciding what we should wear and what we should think looks good?

Posted by Joe Tyler on 16th July 2018 at 12:00am


Category: Philosophy, P4C

Tags: Young Philosophers, Fashion, Identity

Can Educators Know What Children Need?

Life is radically ungrounded. To prepare young people for it, teachers should view their classrooms as places for experimentation, writes Philosophy Foundation specialist Alex Dutson

Posted by Joe Tyler on 12th June 2018 at 12:00am


Category: Philosophy, P4C, Education

How To Do Philosophy in Public

Steven Campbell-Harris reminds us that some of our attempts at reasoning can miss something.  If a child, or an adult, makes a declarative statement that they claim is true and then attempts to provide reasons or grounds for why that is so, there is a third thing that is needed, the warrant, which is often left as an unstated assumption about why the grounds justify the claim.  How can philosophical enquiry help with getting us out of this lazy way of expressing our ideas? 

Posted by Joe Tyler on 5th June 2018 at 12:00am


Category: Philosophy, P4C, Education

Young Philosophers Take The Law Into Their Own Hands

Last month's Young Philosophers Project trip saw our group of young thinkers apprehending, comprehending and judging both works of art and a case of criminal conviction in the impressive offices of Simmons & Simmons.  Thanks to the organisers from the law firm and to Magistrates in the Community for making this trip such a success.

Posted by Joe Tyler on 13th March 2018 at 12:00am


Category: Philosophy, P4C, Education

Tags: Law, Young Philosophers, Judgement, Aesthetics, Decision