Pocket PAL: Creating Enquiring Minds

by Sara Stanley

Overview

Inspiring, intelligent and practical, this user-friendly guide provides a wonderful introduction to using P4C (Philosophy for Children) in primary schools. This extremely accessible book provides an introduction to philosophy for children. It explains how you can encourage children to ask the right questions, reason effectively, think for themselves, and begin to understand more about themselves and the world around them.

Inspiring and intelligent, with clearly presented, practice-based examples, it is full of fun and engaging activities that work right across the curriculum.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781472909596
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	07/19/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	96
File size:	966 KB

About the Author

Sara Stanley, Bed (hons) Cambridge, specialises in creating philosophical worlds in the classroom. Using a year long story curriculum she entices the children to create their own journey through one story, many books and even more dialogues and enquiries based on their everyday play, language and storytelling. Alongside the year long story Sara Stanley shares her passion for picture books to develop all aspects of creative learning and thinking.
Sara specialises in developing worlds ofenquiry through picture books and the stories thatemerge from children's play and storytelling dialogues.
She is a National and International keynote speaker and consultant.
Sara is a Level One P4C Trainer for SAPERE and author of:
Why Think? Philosophical Play 3-11
But Why? Developing Philosophical Thinking in the Classroom
Creating Enquiring MindS
Sara is currently taking time out of full time teaching to concentrate on research in Philosophical Play, children's philosophical storytelling and consultancy with Childrenthinkingas well as her own venture PhilosophyWorldswww.sarastanley.co.uk

Table of Contents

Introduction     2
Philosophical skills
Philosophy and the curriculum     4
Skills and progression     6
Skills: creativity, imagination and communication     8
Acquiring knowledge     10
Moral citizenship     12
Assessing the skills used in the enquiry     14
Setting the rules for enquiry     16
The big issues
What are the big issues?     18
What is love?     20
What is choice?     22
What is right and wrong?     24
What is power?     26
What is identity?     28
The structure of the session
The basic structure     30
Presenting the stimulus     32
Thinking time     34
Questioning     36
Dialogue     38
Getting started with stimulus
Picture books     40
Using pictures     42
Using comics     44
Using objects as stimulus     46
Getting started with questioning
What sort of questions?     48
Recording the questions     50
Seeing connections     52
Making questions philosophical     54
Starting from the questions     56
Getting started with dialogue
The language of enquiry     58
The role of the facilitator     60
Closure and evaluation     62
The facilitator's self-evaluation     64
Dialogue trouble-shooters     66
Taking philosophy home
Introducing homework to parents     68
Introducing Philosophy Bear to parents     70
Sharing ideas with parents     72
Tips for parents     74
Philosophy club     76
Games and activities
Why do games?     78
Developing a sense of community     80
Stand up/sit down     81
Good news, bad news     81
Living without     82
Developing questioning skills - Magic mirror     84
Why on Earth?     86
Developing connections - Can you cross?     88
Developing dialogue skills - Let's pretend     90
Would you rather?     92
Corners     94
Further reading     96