Author name: Jason Buckley

This week, hot on the heels of Halloween, a stimulus about spooky fiction from Grace Lockrobin of www.thinkingspace.org.uk who is one of our team at www.p4he.org We used it our online classes this week. It shows a film audience reacting to a scary movie, Paranormal Activity 2. There’s a certain amount of tension even in watching them tense up! […]

This week, a tool to quickly create questions on any philosophically interesting concept. The example attached is on “freedom”. Just do a “search and replace” to swap in your own concept, and you’ll have 16 questions to choose from either ready-to-use or needing minimal editing. Try it now by reading these, replacing “freedom/free” with “friendship/friend” or beauty/beautiful, fairness, knowledge… Conceptual – meaning – What

For my online classes at www.p4he.org last week I’ve been using a session on time from David Birch’s Thinking Beans (attached here) with some twists.  Like David, I like to get the children doing “experiments” that give them an “in” to the discussion from their own immediate experience. So, I start the session by asking them all