Last month Elizabeth Johnson Jr. was cleared of her crime after a campaign by local schoolchildren in Massachusetts. However, she’s been dead for 275 years. Her “crime”? Being a witch. Follow our enquiry plan below. Also this week, a novel way to embed P4C in your existing curriculum – and I’m looking for schools who […]
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For the last class in our World Philosophy Tour of online classes at www.p4he.org we’ve been using the stories of Nasreddin Hodja stories – a “wise fool” character from Turkish folktales. There are hundreds of these stories. Some are short, almost just jokes – but there’s often a logical trick or some clever ambiguity about them, for
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This week, a story from West Africa about the spider trickster character Anansi. You can find a nice telling of it at www.storymuseum.org.uk, an absolute treasure trove of stories. In the story, Anansi tricks Chameleon and the village chief into gaining a field full of crops, but god and Chameleon put Anansi in his place with
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