Teaching Thinking: Philosophical Enquiry in the Classroom

Teaching Thinking: Philosophical Enquiry in the Classroom

by RobertFisher (Author)

Synopsis

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.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 256
Edition: 3Rev Ed
Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Published: 15 Apr 2008

ISBN 10: 1847061494
ISBN 13: 9781847061492

Media Reviews
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. The models of thinking and learning described in the book will provide an inspiration for readers' own adventures in ideas with children, and a spur for their research. - SirReadaLot.org, September 2008
Author Bio
Dr Robert Fisher is Professor of Education in the School of Education, Brunel University, UK. He is also Director of the Centre for Research in Teaching Thinking.