Kids Can Think: Philosophical Challenges for the Classroom

Kids Can Think: Philosophical Challenges for the Classroom

by Ron Gilmore
Kids Can Think: Philosophical Challenges for the Classroom

Kids Can Think: Philosophical Challenges for the Classroom

by Ron Gilmore

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Overview

Kids Can Think aims to bring the richness of philosophical thinking into the classroom. It invites teachers to think about the value of such thinking in the modern world, where children have to understand and evaluate ever more complex and challenging ideas. This book includes simple, practical ideas that can be implemented with ease and that will promote and inspire a culture of thinking in classrooms. Teachers and their pupils are presented with a series of scenarios introduced by short narrative texts that explore philosophical themes relating to the self, everyday life, and the universe beyond, and questions that can be tackled by anyone from the young novice to the university professor. Kids Can Think provides many ideas and suggestions for thinking activities throughout that will encourage children to develop their logic and spark a desire to probe into ideas that fascinate inquiring minds.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781475829532
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date: 09/08/2016
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 124
File size: 563 KB

About the Author

Ron Gilmore has been an educator for over 25 years. He originally trained as a psychologist before entering the teaching profession, where he has worked in international schools in the Middle East and Europe. Fascinated by the ways in which children think about and process complex ideas, he has run many informal workshops where he explores philosophical ideas with children.

Table of Contents

Preface
Part I
  1. Using the Book
  2. Patterns of Thinking for Philosophy
  3. Classroom Culture
Part II
  1. Do We Live in a Colorful World?
  2. Do You Believe What You See?
  3. No Future
  4. A Red Sock?
  5. The Present
  6. The Me Gene
  7. The Infinite Line
  8. Who is I?
  9. What is an Object?
  10. Who are You?
  11. Not Fair
  12. Can Altruism be Genuine?
  13. Present Again
  14. Know What You're Thinking?
  15. Is Choice a Good Thing?
  16. Is Anything Random?
  17. The Bare Substratum
  18. Infinite Universes
  19. Infinity
  20. Silence
  21. Disliking Liking
  22. The Search for Life
  23. Confusion
  24. Waking Dreams
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