P4C with young children
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Slides used in Ås on the 24th and 25th Sept, and at Gallions School on the 26th Sept 2012
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P4C with young children
- 1. P4C in with 3 – 6 year olds www.p4c.com www.challenginglearning.com
- 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. Challenge with young children
- 5. Typical format for P4C (with Reception onwards) 1. Sit in a circle 2. Warm-up game 3. Story (or other stimulus) 4. Identify the concepts 5. Create (philosophical) questions 6. Vote for the best (or favourite) question 7. Share first thoughts 8. Ask for reasons 9. Check for understanding 10. Create cognitive conflict around the concept 11. Compare the concept with other concepts 12. Draw conclusions
- 6. The Gruffalo By Donaldson & Scheffler
- 8. This is a self-portrait by Aelita Andre
- 10. What P4C does is give children the intellectual, social and emotional tools that they need to think well, to think judiciously and reasonably and, by means of the classroom community of inquiry, foster the care, commitment and courage to act on their thinking. P4C with young children – A M Sharp
- 11. 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
- 13. One way to summarise P4C … Not all of our questions answered … … but all of our answers questioned
- 14. Facts and Concepts Fact Paris is the capital of France Concept (Capital) cities Knowledge Understanding
- 15. Example question starters What is … How do we know what is … What if … Always or never When would … What is the difference between … Is it possible to … Who decides what is … Should we …
- 16. If A = B then Does B = A? Friend Play with Play with Friend For example … Wobblers (If A = B)
- 17. If I wear this hat, I am Bob I’m not Bob if I just have a name badge Cognitive conflict is key to critical thinking
- 19. Standing up game Repeat what someone else said Paraphrase what someone else said Add to what someone else said Creating a Community of Inquiry From www.p4c.com P4C Craft
- 20. “It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age” Margaret Mead (anthropologist)
Editor's Notes
- 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.