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Philosophy for Children (P4C)What is P4C?"An unexamined life is not worth living” SocratesP4C aims to encourage children (or adults) to think critically, caringly, creatively and collaboratively. Based on the principles of a Socratic Dialogue the participants build a ‘community of enquiry’ whereby they create and attempt to answer their own questions. Through this process children are enabled to philosophise and this requires them to reason and explain their thinking, to listen and to build on the ideas of others.
CDEC and P4CCDEC - Developing Global Learning views P4C as a key tool in exploring the global dimension with children, young people and teachers across Cheshire, Halton and Warrington. All CDEC staff are trained to Level 2. We can provide introductory INSETs on P4C to introduce teachers to the approach of the community of enquiry. Although we always recommend that a teacher subsequently attends a Level 1 course. We use our experience and knowledge of P4C in our project work as detailed in the Case Studies below. CoursesIntroduction to P4CDescription Booking Level 1 P4CDescription Who should attend? - P4C will be useful to all education professionals. Due to its skills-based approach to teaching and learning, the Level 1 course is relevant to primary or secondary teachers, specialists (in G & T or Literacy for example), school governors, LEA advisors, head teachers and senior management teams. It has even been used as an effective method of running whole staff meetings. Available Courses
Level 2 P4CDescription Available courses SAPERESAPERE was set up in 1992 following interest aroused by the BBC television documentary Socrates for six year olds. This hour-long film focused on the work of Professor Matthew Lipman and his associates (including Catherine McCall) in New Jersey who, over the past 25 years, have developed a curriculum for 5 to 16 year olds known as Philosophy for Children. SAPERE seeks to build on Lipman’s work and promote his and other approaches to developing better reasoning, more reflective consideration of values and the development of communities of enquiry at all levels of education and in a wide variety of contexts. SAPERE also organises and validates training courses in the theory and practice of philosophical enquiry in education. For more information please visit their website www.sapere.org.uk |
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