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Token Skeptic #131 - On Philosophy For Children - Interview With Sue Knight
Category: Science & Medicine
Duration: 00:22:45
Publish Date: 2012-08-12 10:45:00
Description: As a resource writer, high school and now university-level teacher, I owe a lot to the Philosophy for Children methodology – known as “P4C”). What makes my experience particularly interesting is that P4C hails from the USA and I am an Australian – it is more popular overseas, than in its place of origin. The P4C method draws primarily from the pragmatist tradition – Pierce, James, Mead and especially Dewey. The Community for Inquiry (aka CoI) includes Vygotsky’s theory of the internalization of social behavior and, naturally, draws upon the Socratic method with its community approach, with pupils sharing their views on questions drawn from stimulus materials, guided by but not dicatated by their teachers. Since 2004, I have worked with other P4C teachers with providing workshops, attending lectures nationally with the Australasian Federation for Philosophy for Children, writing resources and teaching the method to students at secondary and tertiary level. It’s a methodology that garners a lot of interest, and yet faces many of the challenges that a lot of good programs and initiatives do when it comes to promoting and sustaining their existence. For this episode, I recently interviewed Dr Sue Knight, Adjunct Lecturer at the School of Education, University of South Australia and the former co-editor of Critical and Creative Thinking: The Australasian Journal of Philosophy in Education. Additional links and resources at the Token Skeptic site. The Token Skeptic book, The Scope of Skepticism: Interviews, Essays and Observations From The Token Skeptic Podcast is out now! Additional Instrumental music, "Striking Silver" by Derek K. Miller Theme songs are “P&P” by Derek K. Miller of www.penmachine.com and “Leap Second” by Milton Mermikides, of www.miltonmermikides.com. This show is available on Zune, mp3 via Libsyn or iTunes. Please considering supporting the show via visiting Tokenskeptic.org - and I’d love to get your feedback at tokenskeptic@gmail.com.
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