The Little Book of Thunks: 260 Questions to Make Your Brain Go Ouch!

A Thunk is a beguiling question about everyday things that stops you in your tracks and helps you start to look at the world in a whole new light.

The author guides you through the origins and uses of Thunks and demonstrates how this powerful little book can develop philosophical thinking for all ages. Remember there are no right or wrong answers to these questions. How liberating is that?

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The Little Book of Thunks: 260 Questions to Make Your Brain Go Ouch!

A Thunk is a beguiling question about everyday things that stops you in your tracks and helps you start to look at the world in a whole new light.

The author guides you through the origins and uses of Thunks and demonstrates how this powerful little book can develop philosophical thinking for all ages. Remember there are no right or wrong answers to these questions. How liberating is that?

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The Little Book of Thunks: 260 Questions to Make Your Brain Go Ouch!

The Little Book of Thunks: 260 Questions to Make Your Brain Go Ouch!

by Ian Gilbert
The Little Book of Thunks: 260 Questions to Make Your Brain Go Ouch!

The Little Book of Thunks: 260 Questions to Make Your Brain Go Ouch!

by Ian Gilbert

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Overview

A Thunk is a beguiling question about everyday things that stops you in your tracks and helps you start to look at the world in a whole new light.

The author guides you through the origins and uses of Thunks and demonstrates how this powerful little book can develop philosophical thinking for all ages. Remember there are no right or wrong answers to these questions. How liberating is that?


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781845900625
Publisher: Crown House Publishing
Publication date: 06/28/2007
Series: Little Books
Pages: 100
Product dimensions: 5.10(w) x 6.90(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Since establishing Independent Thinking 25 years ago, Ian Gilbert has made a name for himself across the world as a highly original writer, editor, speaker, practitioner and thinker and is someone who the IB World magazine has referred to as one of the world's leading educational visionaries.The author of several books, and the editor of many more, Ian is known by thousands of teachers and young people across the world for his award-winning Thunks books. Thunks grew out of Ian's work with Philosophy for Children (P4C), and are beguiling yet deceptively powerful little philosophical questions that he has created to make children's - as well as their teachers' - brains hurt.Ian's growing collection of bestselling books has a more serious side too, without ever losing sight of his trademark wit and straight-talking style. The Little Book of Bereavement for Schools, born from personal family experience, is finding a home in schools across the world, and The Working Class - a massive collaborative effort he instigated and edited - is making a genuine difference to the lives of young people from some of the poorest backgrounds.A unique writer and editor, there is no other voice like Ian Gilbert's in education today.

Table of Contents


Acknowledgments     iii
The Origins and Uses of Thanks     1
What is a Thunk?     3
What is a Thunk for?     4
Where do Thunks come from?     4
How does a Thunk work?     5
What are the benefits of Thunks?     5
How do you use a Thunk?     11
What does a good Thunk session look like?     15
Can you have too much of good Thunk?     18
What can cause a session of Thunks not to go well?     19
How do you end a good session of Thunks?     21
How do you know the Thunks have been worthwhile?     21
Is there life after Thunks?     22
The Thunks     23
Bibliography     91
Useful websites     93
Index to the Thunks     95
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