Teaching Thinking : philosophical enquiry in the classroom

✍ Scribed by Robert Fisher

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Year: 2013
Tongue: English
Leaves: 263
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This fully updated fourth edition of the highly successful guide, Teaching Thinking, explores how to use discussion in the classroom to develop children's thinking, learning and literacy skills. This new edition includes material on the latest trends in teaching thinking, including philosophy for children, dialogic teaching and education for citizenship. The book will help readers from different cultural traditions to critically engage with teaching thinking in schools and other educational contexts.

Teaching Thinking is essential reading for anyone seeking to develop children's thinking, build their self-esteem and improve the quality of teaching and learning.

✦ Table of Contents

ContentS
Chapter One Thinking about thinking
Why teach thinking?
What are thinking skills?
Teaching for thinking
What is thinking?
What is wrong with our thinking? Some common faults
What is strange or puzzling .about thinking?
What kinds of thinking should be taught?
Why philosophy for children?
CHAPTER TWO Philosophy for Children
What is the Philosophy for Children programme?
How is Philosophy for Children taught?
A Philosophy for Children session
Concept development
A philosophical discussion: 'Is your brain the same as your mind?'
What kinds of thinking does Philosophy for Children develop?
Critical thinking
Creative thinking
Caring thinking: The expression of empathy
Thinking and reasoning in classroom discussion
CHAPTER THREE Community of enquiry
What is a Community of Enquiry?
What is a community?
How does a community of enquiry differ from any other community?
How is a community of enquiry created in the classroom?
How does a community of enquiry contribute to moral education?
What does it mean to be moral?
Moral development
Moral attitudes
How are moral and social values to be taught?
Education for democracy
Evaluating progress in a community of enquiry
Society and beyond
Dialogical learning
CHAPTER FOUR Stories for thinking
Why use stories?
What problems do stories pose?
What stories to use? - Stories and texts for philosophical enquiry
Inviting children's questions
Leading a discussion
CHAPTER FIVE Dialogic teaching and learning
Kinds of talk
Dialogue and Socratic teaching
What is Socratic teaching?
How does Socratic teaching differ from traditional teaching?
What is Socratic enquiry?
Philosophy for Children and Socratic dialogue
What is Socratic questioning?
How do we facilitate Socratic discussion?
CHAPTER SIX Philosophy in schools
Restorative discipline
Rights-Respecting Schools
Learning to think and learn
Creating a community of enquiry in the classroom
CHAPTER SEVEN Thinking for life
Philosophy across the curriculum
Developing habits of intelligent behaviour
English: Language and literature
Mathematics
Science
History
Geography
Art
Music
Physical education (PE) and sport
Religious education and spirituality
Citizenship
A democratic community develops
Conclusion
Index

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