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Hands on advice about how to implement philosophy for children programs.
List of contents
Foreword by Roger Sutcliffe
Preface: The Big Ideas for Little Kids Program
Introduction
Chapter 1: Bringing Undergraduates to Pre-School: An Ethics Course for the Very Young
by Erik Kenyon
Chapter 2: Restoring Wonder: The Benefits and Challenges of Doing Philosophy in Mixed-aged Groups by Stephen Kekoa Miller
Chapter 3: Peace Building from Mali to Michigan by Stephen L. Esquith
Chapter 4: Helping Non-Philosophers Discuss Philosophy with Children: The Rotary Club Project by Ali Bassiri
Chapter 5: High School Goes to Kindergarten and Beyond... by Mitchell Bickman and Laura Trongard
Chapter 6: A Difficulty in Training College Students as Facilitators by Daniel Groll
Chapter 7: Picture Books Go To College: Introducing Philosophy to Undergraduates by Thomas E. Wartenberg
List of Contributors
About the author
Thomas E. Wartenberg is the author of Big Ideas for Little Kids: Teaching Philosophy Through Children's Literature and A Sneetch Is a Sneetch and Other Philosophical Discoveries: Finding Wisdom in Children's Literature. He is former President of PLATO, the United States philosophy for children organization, and was awarded the Merritt Prize in 2013 for his contributions to the philosophy of education.
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Hands on advice about how to implement philosophy for children programs.
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In bringing philosophy to preschool through middle school classrooms, school boards, and NGOs, the contributors to this book demonstrate the strength and adaptability of Tom Wartenberg’s program of picture book philosophy. Perhaps even more striking than the glimpses the book provides into the philosophical depth of children are the ways in which the adults working with them come to new understandings of democracy, childhood, education and philosophy. Followers of the pioneering work of Gareth Matthews on philosophy in children’s literature, of Ann Margaret Sharp on the classroom community of inquiry, and of Matthew Lipman on philosophy in education will be delighted and informed by the varied and ingenious ways the contributors to this book have extended their legacy, guided by Wartenberg’s unique philosophical expertise and practical wisdom.
