Author name: Tom Bigglestone

This week, a stimulus story, “The Fairest Queen of All” (download here), which uses a fairytale style to explore the ethics of hereditary, communist, free-market and futuristic societies. The queen tries to respond to the complaints she hears about the unfairness of her realm, but someone is always dissatisfied. r Pause Points The story is […]

This week, not only an age-old philosophical question for P4C and Maths, but a classroom match-report to give you ideas for facilitating it yourself. r The Stimulus “What could this be?” r …is the question I asked Year 6 at St. Andrew’s Primary School last week, where I’m the Philosopher in Residence. It’s actually the

This week, a poem that can be used as a stimulus for questions about economics, human nature and the power of people to effect change. It’s by Alice Walker, author of “The Colour Purple” among many other works. Here’s the poem on her website r http://alicewalkersgarden.com/2013/09/we-alone-can-devalue-gold/ r or here’s a video: r https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkW3sACgq58 r r