Teaching Thinking: Philosophical Enquiry in the Classroom

by RobertFisher (Author)

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  Paperback
  2003

  $3.25

  This sourcebook of ideas is designed to help teachers, students and others interested in education to understand and engage in philosophical enquiry with children. It illustrates how philosophical discussion can help promote critical thinking as well as the moral and social values essential for citizenship in a democratic society. It also shows how a community of enquiry can be created in any classroom, enriching learning across the whole curriculum.

• Used

  Paperback
  2008

  $3.25

  A highly successful guide to encourage classroom discussion for developing children's thinking, learning and literacy skills containing material on the latest trends in teaching thinking, including dialogic teaching, creativity and personalized learning. This sourcebook of ideas is essential reading for anyone seeking to develop children's minds, to build their self-esteem or to improve the quality of teaching and learning in schools.This is a fully updated third edition of the highly successful guide to using discussion in the classroom to develop children's thinking, learning and literacy skills. This new edition includes material on the latest trends in teaching thinking, including dialogic teaching, creativity and personalized learning. This of ideas is essential reading for anyone seeking to develop children's minds, to build their self-esteem or to improve the quality of teaching and learning in schools.