Teaching Children Philosophical Thinking

Matthew Lipman and Ann Margaret Sharp

27 pages
1.4 MB
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The founders of Philosophy for Children explain their method to elementary school teachers: how to set up a classroom dialogue, avoid indoctrination and help kids reason about their own questions. Written as the introduction to the manual for Harry Stottlemeier's Discovery.

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