An Intro to P4C
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Slides used by James Nottingham during workshop 3 of the Hawker Brownlow conference, Melbourne on 21 May 2011
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An Intro to P4C
- 1. An Introduction to Philosophy for Children James Nottingham www.p4c.com www.jamesnottingham.co.uk
- 2. The aim of a thinking skills programme such as P4C is not to turn children into philosophers but to help them become more thoughtful, more reflective, more considerate and more reason-able individuals P4C – Created by Matthew Lipman
- 3. P4C programme by Lipman Elfie (5 – 7) General Reasoning and Enquiry Kio and Gus (5 – 10) Exploring Nature Pixie (5 – 10) General Reasoning and Enquiry Harry (9 – 12) General Reasoning and Enquiry Lisa (12 – 15) Ethical Suki (13 – 16) Expression, Writing, Poetry Mark (14 – 17) Sociological
- 5. • Children gained on average 6 standard points on a measure of cognitive abilities after 16 months of weekly P4C • Pupils increased their level of participation in classroom discussion by half as much again following 6 months of weekly P4C • Incidents of children supporting their views with reasons, doubled over a 6 month period • Teachers doubled their use of open-ended questions over a 6 month period • Pupils and teachers perceived significant gains in communication, confidence, concentration, participation and social behaviour following 6 months of P4C Impact of P4C – research findings
- 6. 1.Sit in a circle 2.Share a story, text or other stimulus 3.Ask (philosophical) questions 4.Choose the best question 5. Identify the key concept 6. Listen to other perspectives 7. Apply critical and creative thinking 8. Consider progress Typical P4C Format
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- The last 4 lines should be in a different colour, or in some way differentiated from the others, so that I can make the point about where lessons might be split
- The story of the Pig of Happiness has been scanned into a separate PPT. So, if it’s possible to create a link here that will start up another PPT (just put in a dummy PPT for now) to save me than having to come out of this PPT and going into another PPT, then that would be great.