This week’s issue has the theme of children and adults, what adults can learn from children and the question, “When do you stop being a child?” It was prompted by a new paper in Think!, by our friends Emma Swinn at SAPERE and Stephen Campbell-Harris, “The Myth of Growing Up: How Childlike Traits Benefit Adults”. Lots […]
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This week, a set of tools for managing behaviour during any kind of class discussion. We’ve recorded a short video explaining the ideas we turn to when running demonstration workshops in schools. In the video we cover: …and much more. It’s only 15 minutes long, but stick us on double speed if you’re short on
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This week a short guide to the three must-have ingredients for a good stimulus — whether that’s in P4C, or just to promote any kind of classroom discussion: conflict, plausibility and incompleteness, with links to stimuli that demonstrate their importance. Conflict A stimulus needs to present conflicting ideas about a concept or question. These can
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