Be a Philosopher!
World Philosophy Day is here again on Thursday 19th November.
Download free lesson plans from our website to inspire your classes; don a beret or a beard and get thinking!
In Peter Worley’s latest book, 40 lessons to get children thinking (one for every week of the school year, plus a spare, because philosophy isn’t just for a day!), he wants to inspire young thinkers to become philosophers.
Posted by on 11th November 2015 at 12:00am
Category: P4C, Philosophy
Tales from the Nursery
By Steve Hoggins
[steve listening] I have been doing philosophy with nursery children for the last couple of years (having previously worked as a nursery teacher) and I have noticed some differences between doing philosophy with them and doing philosophy with older children, which I’d like to share.
Posted by on 2nd August 2015 at 12:00am
Category: P4C
Response to Dennis Hayes in Spiked Online
Dennis Hayes wrote in Spiked Online, ‘Philosophy for children’ isn’t real philosophy.
Posted by on 26th July 2015 at 12:00am
Category: P4C, Philosophy
Response to Tom Bennett on TES blog ‘Philosophy. For children?’
Philosophy has been in the news a good deal this week due to some very positiveresearch by EEF into SAPERE’s model that notes improvements to reading and maths. Tom Bennett wrote a piece responding to the P4C buzz yesterday:Philosophy. For children? When thinking requires thinking about something. This is my response to that piece, piece by piece.
Posted by on 24th July 2015 at 12:00am
Category: Education, P4C, Philosophy
Philosophy GCSE
Over the last year The Philosophy Foundation has been supporting the Philosophy in Education Project (PEP), run by Dr John Taylor and A. C. Grayling, along with SAPERE, A Level Philosophy and a host of well-known philosophers including Angie Hobbs, Simon Blackburn, Nigel Warburton and Tim Williamson.
This is a response by Peter Worley to ‘why there shouldn’t be a philosophy GCSE‘ by Miss AVE Carter, who has started an important open debate about the newly proposed philosophy GCSE by PEP.
Posted by on 22nd June 2015 at 12:00am
Category: Education, P4C, Philosophy
