Comment on Thoughts from a trainer’s meeting: how radical is P4C? by Peter Worley

Peter Worley — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 16:05:39 +0000

Thanks for this summary of my presentation but I feel that a few clarifications are needed. The PhiE method does not reject democratic principles. If you remember from my presentation I aim to preserve the autonomy of the children by the use of ‘emergent questions’ and because of the importance of dialogue and dialectic in the PhiE sessions. To that extent the children set the agenda. But what I do deny is the identification of philosophy with democratic principles (remember the teacher who said to me that what I was doing was not philosophy because the children did not vote for the questions). Philosophy is not the same as the democratic principles which inform the P4C ethical agenda. That is something else. Something that may be good and that we may agree is good, but nevertheless something different from the activity of philosophy and which is itself open to philosophical and critical evaluation.
Let’s keep this interesting discussion going.
What are you top 3 questions?…

Comment on Engaging inter-generationally by Graeme Tiffany

Graeme Tiffany — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 09:58:48 +0000

It’s not just me that thinks that engagement is important; so does Prof. Dylan Wiliam, the initiator of the the BBC 2 ‘Classroom Experiment’ series. Very much required viewing. See http://tinyurl.com/39bq8lj

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